Territory of Booth Island (Antarctica) (A better world TL)

Booth Island (or Wandel Island) is a rugged, snowy, Y-shaped island, 8 kilometres (5 mi) long and rising to 980 m (3,215 ft) off the northwest coast of Kiev Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica in the northeastern part of the Wilhelm Archipelago.  Booth Island is located at 65°4′48″S 64°0′0″W. Discovered and named by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann 1873–74, who claimed it for Germany and named it probably for Oskar Booth or Stanley Booth, or both, members of the Hamburg Geographical Society at that time. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names has rejected the name "Wandel Island", applied by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition — in honour of Danish polar explorer and hydrographer Carl Frederick Wandel, 1897–99, in favor of the original naming. The narrow passage between the island and the mainland is the scenic Lemaire Channel.
The highest point of the island is 980-metre (3,215 ft) Wandel Peak. Damien Gildea called it "one of the most challenging unclimbed objectives on the Antarctic Peninsula". On 15 February 2006 the peak was reached by a group of Spanish alpinists, who still avoided the last 10–15 metres (32.8–49.2 ft) of the mushroomlike top.
It is part of the Archipelago Wilhelm Archipelago, has a total length of 8 km (5 mi). The highest point is Wandel Peak at 980 m (3,220 ft).
It was the only colonie germany retained after WW2 since the Prussian Republic (A better world TL) was give custody over it to help buy off the Soviets.
A small, portable photo-booth was put on the island for 5 weeks in the summer of 2001. The people that installed it took thire photos in it, making it the most southerly photo-booth in the world.
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