Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Hanka Island

(Paradise Harbour)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 64° 51' 42" S 62° 48' 16" W
in Leith Cove, Paradise Harbour, Danco Coast, was charted by the whalers after 1905; named by Ferguson after Messrs Salvesen's whale catcher Hanka in which he visited the area in 1913-14; further charted by the Argentine Antarctic Expedition in 1950-51. The island was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Danco Island', 1956-58.