Hansen Island

Hansen Island (67°6′S 67°37′W) is an island 6 nautical miles (11 km) long and 3 nautical miles (6 km) wide, lying immediately north of The Gullet at the head of Hanusse Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was first surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under John Rymill, who used the provisional name "North Island" for this feature. The island was resurveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, and was renamed in 1954 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Leganger H. Hansen, manager at Messrs. Christian Salvesen's whaling station at Leith Harbor, South Georgia, 1916–37, who gave great assistance to the BGLE, 1934–37.[1]

This article is about the Antarctic island. For the Arctic Island shared by Denmark and Canada, see Hans Island.

See also

References
  1. "Hansen Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 21 May 2012.

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