Danco Island

Danco Island

Danco Island, February 2009
Danco Island Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	64°44′S 62°37′W / 64.733°S 62.617°W / -64.733; -62.617Coordinates: 64°44′S 62°37′W / 64.733°S 62.617°W / -64.733; -62.617
Administration
None
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

Danco Island or Isla Dedo is an island off Antarctica, 2 kilometres (1 nmi) long lying in the southern part of Errera Channel, off the west coast of Graham Land. It was charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache, 1897–1899. Danco Island was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Norsel in 1955, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee for Emile Danco (1869–1898), a Belgian geophysicist and member of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, who died on board Belgica in the Antarctic.^[1]

See also

• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Danco Island" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).