Lindenberg Island
| Lindenberg Island | |
| Location | |
| Location: | 64°55’26"S, 59°41’5"W |
| Highest point: | 656 feet |
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Lindenberg Island is an island within the Larsen Ice Shelf, lying off the Nordenskjöld Coast, part of the east coast of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory.
The island is circular, half a mile in diameter, lying eleven 11 nautical miles north of Robertson Island and some 35 nautical miles east-northeast of Cape Fairweather on the Nordenskjöld Coast. It rises some 650 feet above the ice-shelf.
Discovery and exploration
The island was discovered by a Norwegian whaling expedition under Carl Anton Larsen, charting it as a volcanic island on 11 December 1893
Larsen named the hill 'Lindenbergs Sugarpot', appearing in charts thereafter as 'Lindenberg's Sugar-Top', Lindenbergs Sukkertop and similar linguistic variants. The name 'Lindenberg Volcano' is also used. Lindenberg, whom Larsen honoured in this name, was a member of the firm of Woltereck and Robertson of Hamburg, which dispatched the whaling expedition to the Antarctic, a manager of A/S Oceana, and part-owner of the expedition ship Jason. 'Sugar Top' is because the island is shaped like a sugar-loaf.
The island was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Hope Bay in 1952-54. In 1981-82 the island was reported to be an active volcanic centre, but this is unconfirmed.
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Lindenberg Island