Robertson Island

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The Robertson Island (english Robertson Iceland ) is an island east of the Antarctic Peninsula in the Weddell Sea. The island is located about 80 kilometers off the coast of the peninsula. Between this and the island is the now dilapidated Larsen -A Ice Shelf. Some 100 kilometers south lies the larger and more stable Larsen C Ice Shelf. About three kilometers north of Robertson Island is located with the Christenseninsel the closest of Robben Islands.

The Robertson Island is almost completely glaciated, only two places stands out the bare rock, in Oceana Nunatak in the northwest and on the southeast tip of the island, Cape Marsh, were where found in sediments from the Upper Cretaceous fossils of shells and serpulidae.

The island was first sighted in 1893 by Carl Anton Larsen. He named the island after William Robertson, a Scottish businessman and co-owner of Woltereck & Robertson. The Hamburg-based company held a substantial equity stake in the company, which funded Larsen's expedition. The first mapping of the island was made ​​by Otto Nordenskjold, who reached Coming as head of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition of the Snow Hill Island with a dog sled in October 1902.