Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Fridtjof Island

(Wiencke Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 64° 53' 25" S 63° 21' 4" W
in Gerlache Strait, SE of Wiencke Island, Danco Coast, was roughly charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 10-11 February 1898, and named Îlot Fridtjof probably after Dr Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), Norwegian Arctic explorer; Leader, trans-Greenland expedition, 1888-89, and Norwegian North Polar Expedition, 1893-96; Professor of Oceanography, Christiania (now Oslo) University, 1908-30; Nobel Laureate for peace, 1921-22. The island was recharted from John Biscoe, 1959-67.