Hovgaard Island () is an island long, lying southwest of

Booth Island Booth Island (or Wandel Island) is a rugged, Y-shaped island, long and rising to off the northwest coast of Kyiv Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica in the northeastern part of the Wilhelm Archipelago. The narrow passage between the island a ...

in the

Wilhelm Archipelago The Wilhelm Archipelago is an island archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. Wilhelm Archipelago consists of numerous islands, the largest of which are Booth Island and Hovgaard Island. The archipelago extends f ...

, Antarctica.

Location

Hovgaard Island is off the Graham Coast of the northwest side of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is in the

. It is southwest of

, northwest of

Mount Shackleton Mount Shackleton () is a mountain, 1,465 m, with perpendicular cliffs facing west, standing east of Chaigneau Peak between Leay and Wiggins Glaciers on Kyiv Peninsula, the west side of Graham Land in Antarctica. It was discovered by the 1908� ...

on the mainland, northeast of the

French Passage French Passage () is a passage through the Wilhelm Archipelago, extending in a northwest–southeast direction between Petermann Island, the Stray Islands, the Vedel Islands and the Myriad Islands to the north and the Argentine Islands, the Ana ...

and east of the

Vedel Islands Vedel Islands is a group of small islands lying west of Hovgaard Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago. The largest island of this group was discovered in 1898 and given the name Vedel by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache. The French ...

.. It is off the northwest coast of the

Kyiv Peninsula Kyiv Peninsula (, ) is the predominantly ice-covered, oval shaped peninsula projecting 35 km in northwest direction from the west side of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula. It is bounded by Flandres Bay to the northeast and Beascochea Bay to t ...

. 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 Eduard Dallmann (11 March 1830 – 23 December 1896) was a German whaler, trader, and Polar explorer. Dallmann was born in Blumenthal, at-the-time a village just to the north of Bremen. He began his adventures as a young sailor at the age of&n ...

, but the name Hovgaard applied by the

Belgian Antarctic Expedition The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. Led by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery aboard the RV ''Belgica'', it was the first Belgian Antarctic expedition and is considered the firs ...

(BelgAE), 1897–99, under

Adrien de 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 t ...

, has overtaken the original name in usage.

Andreas Peter Hovgaard Andreas Peter Hovgaard (1 November 1853 – 15 March 1910) was a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. Hovgaard became a sub-lieutenant of the Danish Navy in 1874, rising to the rank of Lieutenant (navy), lieutenant in 1876, Captain (naval) ...

was a polar explorer and officer of the

Danish Navy The Royal Danish Navy ( da, Søværnet) is the sea-based branch of the Danish Defence force. The RDN is mainly responsible for maritime defence and maintaining the sovereignty of Danish territorial waters (incl. Faroe Islands and Greenland). Oth ...

. 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

. Point forming the south end of Hovgaard Island, in the Wilhelm Archipelago. Charted and named by the

French Antarctic Expedition The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica. First expedition In 1772, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec and the naturalist Jean Guillaume Bruguière sailed to the Antarctic region in search of the fable ...

(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

. 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

. 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

. 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

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, 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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