La Ronciere Island
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History
This island was named by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition after Captain La Ronciere Le Noury, a French courier for Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph.[1]
On some maps La Ronciere Island appears as "Whitney Island", after American Arctic financier William Collins Whitney. This name was given by the American explorer Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, but the Austro-Hungarian explorers who discovered Franz Josef land had named this island first.[2]
Geography
La Ronciere Island's area is Script error: No such module "convert".. Its latitude is 81° N and its longitude 61° E. The highest point of the island is Script error: No such module "convert".. It is almost completely glaciarized except for two small points by the shore in the northeast and in the west.
La Ronciere Island lies north of Wilczek Land, separated from it by an Script error: No such module "convert". wide sound.
Adjacent islands
Geddes Island
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This same island was named Hayden Island (Остров Гайдана; Ostrov Gaydana), after pioneering American geologist Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, by the Ziegler-Fiala expedition.
See also
References
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- ↑ [1] & Captain La Ronciere Le Noury
- ↑ Peter Joseph Capelotti. 1999. The Greatest Show in the Arctic: The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898–1905. University of Oklahoma Press, 2016, p. 185.
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External links
- Franz Josef Land (in Russian)
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