Hovgaard Island (Antarctica)

Hovgaard Island () is an island long, lying southwest of Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica.

Location

Hovgaard Island is off the Graham Coast of the northwest side of the Antarctic Peninsula.
It is in the Wilhelm Archipelago.
It is southwest of Booth Island, northwest of Mount Shackleton on the mainland, northeast of the French Passage and east of the Vedel Islands..
It is off the northwest coast of the Kyiv Peninsula.

Hovgaard Island is a popular location for camping in Antarctica among expedition groups due to the presence of a relatively flat campsite along Penola Strait. Campers dig "snow graves" to sleep in. The holes offer protection from the wind.Camping on Hovgaard Island -- TravelPod
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Discovery and name

Hovgaard Island was discovered and named Krogmann Island by the German 1873–74 expedition under Eduard Dallmann, but the name Hovgaard applied by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE), 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, has overtaken the original name in usage.
Andreas Peter Hovgaard was a polar explorer and officer of the Danish Navy.
The name Krogmann Point has been given to the western extremity of Hovgaard Island.

Sailing directions

The US Defense Mapping Agency's ''Sailing Directions for Antarctica'' (1976) describes Hovgaard Island as follows:

Features

Features and nearby features include:

Guéguen Point

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Point forming the south end of Hovgaard Island, in the Wilhelm Archipelago.
Charted and named by the French Antarctic Expedition (FrAE) under Jean-Baptiste Charcot , 1903-05, after J. Guéguen Point, one of the crew the ship ''Francais'' and later, of the ''Pourquoi-Pas?'', 1908-10.

Krogmann Point

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Point forming the west extremity of Hovgaard Island.
Hovgaard Island was first seen by a German expedition under Dallmann in January 1874 and named "Krogmann Insel."
However, the name Hovgaard, applied by the BelgAE under Gerlache in February 1898, has overtaken the original in usage.
In order to preserve Dallmann's earlier name in this vicinity, Krogmann Point has been approved for the feature here described.

Pléneau Island

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An island, long, lying just northeast of Hovgaard Island.
Charted as a peninsula of Hovgaard Island by the FrAE, 1903-05, under Charcot, who named its northeast point for Paul Pléneau, photographer of the expedition.
The feature was first shown to be an island on an Argentine government chart of 1957.

Penola Strait

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A strait long and averaging wide, separating the Argentine Islands, Petermann Island and Hovgaard Island from the west coast of Graham Land.
Traversed by the BelgAE under Gerlache on February {{convert, 12, 1898.
Named by the British Graham Land expedition (BGLE} 1934-37, under John Rymill, for the expedition ship ''Penola''.{{sfn, Alberts, 1995, p=567

Gallery

File:Hovgaard1.JPG, Campers on Hovgaard Island
File:Hovgaard2.JPG, Hovgaard Island, Antarctica
File:Hovgaard3.JPG, Campers on Hovgaard Island
File:Hovgaard4.jpg, Campers on Hovgaard Island
File:Hovgaard5.JPG, Campers on Hovgaard Island
File:PleneauIsland005.JPG, Tourists visit Pléneau Island
File:PleneauIsland004.JPG, Kayakers around Pléneau Island
File:PleneauIsland006.JPG, Gentoo penguin on Pléneau Island
File:PleneauIsland009.JPG, Gentoo penguin and chicks on Pléneau Island
File:PleneauIsland014.JPG, Gentoo penguin colony on Pléneau Island
File:PleneauIsland025.JPG, Scientist counts Gentoo penguins on Pléneau Island
File:Pleneau Island.jpg, Pléneau Island
File:Penola Strait, Antarctica.jpg, Penola Strait

References

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Sources

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Islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago