The Bugge Islands are a small group of ice-covered islands lying close off the front of
Wordie Ice Shelf
The Wordie Ice Shelf () was a confluent glacier projecting as an ice shelf into the SE part of Marguerite Bay between Cape Berteaux and Mount Edgell, along the western coast of Antarctic Peninsula.
In March 2008, the British Antarctic Surve ...
and between northwest of
Mount Guernsey
Mount Guernsey () is an isolated, mainly ice-covered mountain, high, standing north of the summit of Mount Edgell, on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The name "Ile Guernesey" was given in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under ...
, off the west coast of the
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.
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. They were first seen from the air and photographed by the
British Graham Land Expedition in 1936, and later roughly mapped from the photographs. They were observed in 1947 from the ''Port of Beaumont, Texas'' by the
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.
Background
Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...
(RARE) under
Finn Ronne
Finn Ronne (December 20, 1899 – January 12, 1980) was a Norwegian-born U.S. citizen and Antarctic explorer.
Background
Finn Ronne was born in Horten, in Vestfold county, Norway. His father, Martin Rønne (1861–1932), was a polar explorer ...
, who named these islands for his niece,
Ruth Bugge
Ruth (or its variants) may refer to:
Places France
* Château de Ruthie, castle in the commune of Aussurucq in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France
Switzerland
* Ruth, a hamlet in Cologny
United States
* Ruth, Alabama
* Ruth, Ark ...
, who supplied woolen clothing from Norway for the RARE.
[ The group was also visited by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1947, which named the islands ''Isla Aldea'', ''Isla Eleuterio Ramírez'', ''Isla Latorre'', after heroes of the naval battle of Iquique.
From North to South the islands of the group are:
* Ramírez Island
*]Aldea Island
Aldea Island is the central of the three Bugge Islands, off Wordie Ice Shelf, Fallières Coast, Antarctic Peninsula. The island was named ''Isla Aldea'' by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1947, probably after Sargento Juan de Dios Aldea, of t ...
*Landrum Island
Landrum Island is the southernmost of the three Bugge Islands in the south part of Marguerite Bay, Fallières Coast, Antarctica. The island was called "Isla Latorre" by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1947, and was later named by the Advisory ...
See also
* List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
This is a list of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands.
* Antarctic islands are, in the strict sense, the islands around mainland Antarctica, situated on the Antarctic Plate, and south of the Antarctic Convergence. According to the terms of the ...
References
Islands of Graham Land
Fallières Coast
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