Hansen Island

{{Short description|Island in Antarctica}}

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{{About|the Antarctic island|the Arctic Island shared by Denmark and Canada|Hans Island}}

Hansen Island ({{coord|67|6|S|67|37|W|source:GNIS|display=inline,title}}) is an island {{convert|6|nmi|km}} long and {{convert|3|nmi|km|0}} wide, lying immediately north of The Gullet at the head of Hanusse Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was first surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under John Rymill, who used the provisional name "North Island" for this feature. The island was resurveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, and was renamed in 1954 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Leganger H. Hansen, manager at Messrs. Christian Salvesen's whaling station at Leith Harbor, South Georgia, 1916–37, who gave great assistance to the BGLE, 1934–37.