Feature Name (see definition): Andersson Island

Feature Class (see definition): Island

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 418

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 63° 35' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 056° 35' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -63.5833333

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -56.5833333

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1953

Description (see definition): Island 7 mi long and 4 mi wide, lying 0.5 mi S of Jonassen Island at the W side of the S entrance to Antarctic Sound, off the NE tip of Antarctic Peninsula. This island was named Uruguay Island by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE), 1901-04, under Nordenskjold, after the Argentine ship Uruguay which participated in the rescue of the ship-wrecked Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE) in 1903. In 1904, the French Antarctic Expedition (FrAE) under Charcot, apparently unaware of the Swedish naming, gave the name Uruguay to an island off the W coast of Antarctic Peninsula. Since it is confusing to have two islands in close proximity identically named, and because Charcot's Uruguay Island has appeared more widely on maps and in reports, the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) accepts the decision of the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) that the name given this island by Nordenskjold be altered. The new name commemorates J. Gunnar Andersson, who was second-in-command of Nordenskjold's expedition.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data