Fredriksen Island
Fredriksen Island is an island 5 km long and 1 km wide, lying 1 km south-east of Powell Island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It was discovered by Captains Nathaniel Palmer and George Powell in the course of their joint cruise in December 1821.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Michelsen Island and Grey Island.
Michelsen Island
Islet
Michelsen Island is a small island in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica. It is joined to the southern end of Powell Island by a narrow isthmus of occasionally submerged boulders.
Grey Island
Islet
Grey Island is 1 km south of Michelsen Island and 2 km west of the southern part of Fredriksen Island, in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It was first charted and named Holmen Graa on a map by the Norwegian whaler Captain Petter Sorlle, who made a running survey of the South Orkney Islands in 1912–13.
Christoffersen Island
Islet
Christoffersen Island is a small island immediately west of the southern end of Powell Island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. The name appears on a chart by Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sorlle, who made a running survey of these islands in 1912–13.
Fredriksen Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Fredriksen Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Fredriksen”
- Chinese: “弗雷德里克森島”
- Dutch: “Fredriksen Island”
- German: “Fredriksen-Insel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fredriksenøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fredriksen Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fredriksenøya”
- Norwegian: “Fredriksenøya”
- Spanish: “Fredriksen, isla”
- Swedish: “Fredriksen Island”
- Swedish: “Fredriksen”
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