Danco Island | |
Map: | Antarctica#Antarctic Peninsula |
Location: | Antarctica |
Highest Mount: | Danco Hill |
Elevation M: | 131 |
Country: | None |
Population: | Uninhabited |
Treaty System: | Antarctic Treaty System |
Danco Island or Isla Dedo is an island off Antarctica, 10NaN0 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 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.
Station O | |
Settlement Type: | Antarctic research station |
Established Title: | Established |
Extinct Title: | Demolished |
Government Type: | Administration |
Governing Body: | BAS, United Kingdom |
Population Blank1 Title: | Summer |
Population Blank2 Title: | Winter |
Blank Name Sec1: | Active times |
Blank Info Sec1: | All year-round |
Blank1 Name Sec1: | Activities |
Blank2 Name Sec1: | Facilities |
Danco Island was the location of the British research Station O. It was active from 26 February, 1956 to 22 February, 1959 with the intention of searching in the survey and geology. The main hut was named Arendal and was demolished and removed by British Antarctic Survey in April 2004.[1]