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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Petermann Island (RUS) 65° 30' 00.0" S 64° 15' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 119929 Place ID: 11150

Petermann Island (GBR) 65° 10' 00.0" S 64° 10' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 110588 Place ID: 11150

W side of Penola Strait, Graham Coast, between Hovgaard Island and Argentine Islands, was roughly charted by GAE, 1873-74, and named Petermann(-)Insel after Augustus Heinrich Petermann (1822-78), German geographer and cartographer; Manager of the Justus Perthes establishment, Gotha, and Founder in 1855, and for many years Editor, of its Geographische Mittheilungen, the leading German geographical journal ([Petermann], 1875a, p.312; Fricker, 1898, map p.122). Petermann Island (USHO chart 1132, 1894; BA chart 3570, 5.i.1951; APC, 1955, p.17; DOS 610 sheet W 65 64, 1959). The island was further charted as a new discovery by BeAE, 12 February 1898, and renamed IÎle Lund, probably after a Danish supporter of the expedition (Lecointe, map, 1899; 1900a, map facing p.132). Lund Island (Cook, 1900, map p.xx). Lund (Arçtowski, 1901b, map facing p.464). Lund Insel (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol.2, first end map). Lunds Ön (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904a, Del.1, end map). The island was recharted by FAE, 1903-05, in February 1904 and identified as GAE's Petermann Insel and BeAE's IÎle Lund (Charcot, 1906a, map facing p.316; 1906b, p.18). Isla Lund (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map). The island was further charted by FAE, 1908-10, in March 1909. IÎle Petermann (Charcot, 1910, map facing p.152). Isla Petermann (Gourdon, [1910], p.132; Pierrou, 1970, p.587; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.225). IÎle Petermann-Lund (Matha and Rey, 1911, p.33). Petermann-Lund Island (Charcot, 1911a, p.249). IÎle Petermann (IÎle Lund) (Charcot, 1912, Pl.1). Petermann (Lund) Island (BA chart 3175, 9.x.1914). Lund Insel or Petermann Insel (Nordenskjöld, 1917, map facing p.68). Petermand [sic] Is. (St. Johnston, 1920, p.98). Lund Öya or Petermann Öya (HA chart, 1927). IÎle Lund-Petermann (Zimmermann, 1930, p.345). Peterman Islands [sic] (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942). Petermann Island (Lund Island) (USHO, 1943, p.137). Isla Peterman [sic] (Chile. DNH chart LII, 1947). Peterman [sic] Island (BA chart 3175, 1947). Isla Pettermann [sic] (Díaz Molano and Homet, [1948], p.293). Wyspy Petermanna (Machowski, 1953, p.154). Isla Lund Peterman [sic] (Cordini, 1955, p.52). Isla Penola, apparently referring to this feature in association with Penola Strait (q.v.) (Argentina. MM, 1957b, p.139). The island wasphotographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and further charted by FIDS-RN in 1958. Lund Eiland, Petermann Eiland (Knapp, 1958, p.579).

Petermann Island (USA) 65° 10' 00.0" S 64° 10' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 130055 Place ID: 11150

Island 1 mi long, lying 1 mi SW of Hovgaard Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago. Discovered by a German expedition 1873-74, and named by Dallmann for August Petermann, noted German geographer and founder of Petermanns Mitteilungen. The US-ACAN has rejected the name Lund Island, applied by the BelgAE, 1897-99, in favor of the original naming.

Petermann, isla (ARG) 65° 10' 00.0" S 64° 10' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 101842 Place ID: 11150

Petermann, Isla (CHL) 65° 10' 00.0" S 64° 09' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 106088 Place ID: 11150

Fue descubierta por la Expedición Alemana al mando de Eduard Dallmann, 1873-1874, y denominada así por August Petermann, notable geógrafo alemán y fundador de la Oficina de Informaciones Petermann. El Comité Consultor de Nombres Antárticos de los EE.UU. ha reemplazado el nombre isla Lund, aplicado por la Expedición Belga de 1897- 1899, al mando del teniente Adrien de Gerlache por el nombre original. Isla aproximadamente de 1 milla de largo por 5 cables de ancho situada en las islas Dannebrog a 1 milla al W de cabo Duseberg en la costa W de la península Tierra de O'Higgins.

Petermanninsel (DEU) 65° 10' 00.0" S 64° 10' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 107044 Place ID: 11150

S-most island of the Vedel Islands, at the end of the Lemaire Channel, NE of the Argentine Iaslands, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Inseln, Graham Coast, W side of the Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered during German Antarctic Expedition 1873/74 under Captain Eduard Dallmann (1830-1896).

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