Haenke Island

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Haenke Iceland is an island in Disenchantment Bay, a bay in southeastern Alaska at the transition to the Panhandle. It is near the face of the Hubbard Glacier, the longest ending in a body of water glaciers of Alaska, and the mouth of Russell Fjord. The nearest town is 48 km southwest Yakutat. Haenke Iceland administratively belongs to the metropolitan area ( borough ).

The island in 1792 by Alessandro Malaspina by Thaddeus Haenke, a Bohemian German scientists, the participants of the guided Malaspina first major Spanish research expedition in the Pacific from 1789 to 1794 was named was. Malaspina sailed to this island before he realized that this way was not the hoped-for connection to the Atlantic.

Analyzes of the expeditions of Malaspina (1792 ) and George Vancouver (1794 ) and Russian maps from the early 19th century suggest that the Hubbard Glacier in 1800 ranged up to Haenke Iceland and beyond.