The Christiania Islands are a group of islands and rocks between
Liège Island
Liège Island (in English also Liege Island) is an island, long and wide, lying immediately northeast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, and separated from Hoseason Island and Christiania Islands to the northeast by Croker Passage. ...
and
Trinity Island
Trinity Island or Île de la Trinité or Isla Trinidad is an island long and wide in the northern part of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It lies east of Hoseason Island, south of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, and nor ...
, in the
Palmer Archipelago. They were charted by the
Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under
Gerlache
Baron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery (; 2 August 1866 – 4 December 1934) was a Belgian officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99.
Early years
Born in Hasselt in eastern Belgium as ...
, who named the group for Christiania (now
Oslo
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), Norway, where he obtained assistance and equipment for the expedition.
See also
*
List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
Further reading
* Thomas Wyatt. Bagshawe,
Two men in the Antarctic : an expedition to Graham land, 1920-1922', P 186
* United States. Hydrographic Office,
Sailing Directions for Antarctica', P 144
References
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External links
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Islands of the Palmer Archipelago
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