Hovgaard Island

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The Hovgaard Island is an island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The 4.8 km -long island is located between the Booth and Petermann Island.

It was discovered in 1873/74 by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann and after the member of the Hamburg Geographical Society Hermann Krogmann ( 1826-1894 ) named " Krogmann Island ". The Belgica expedition, led by Adrien de Gerlache 1897-1899 gave it the name Hovgaard Island to Andreas Peter Hovgaard (1853-1910), a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. The westernmost point of the island Hovgaard was named Krogmann Point. In 1904 the island of Jean -Baptiste Charcot was remapped as this with the Pourquoi Pas? wintered in a bay of Booth Island. In order to keep his people in the long polar winter in a good mood, he organized a legendary picnic on the Hovgaard Island.

Swell

  • Hoovgard Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
  • John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia. McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6, pp. 759f. and 1214
  • Uninhabited Island
  • Island ( Antarctica )
  • Island ( Southern Ocean)
Belgian Antarctic Expedition Jean-Baptiste Charcot
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