Lindenberg Island
Island in Graham Land, Antarctica
64°55′S 59°40′W / 64.917°S 59.667°W / -64.917; -59.667
Lindenberg Island is a circular volcanic island 1 kilometre (0.5 nmi) in diameter, lying 20 kilometres (11 nmi) north of Robertson Island and some 60 kilometres (35 nmi) east-northeast of Cape Fairweather, off the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by a Norwegian whaling expedition under C.A. Larsen in December 1893, and was named by Larsen for a member of the firm of Woltereck and Robertson of Hamburg which sent him to the Antarctic.[1]
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- ^ "Lindenberg Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Lindenberg Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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