Île Descartes
| Île Descartes | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 141 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 160 m | |
The Île Descartes , also known as Descartes Island , is a rocky and 160 m long island off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It is located 1.4 km north-northeast of Cape Mousse between the islands of Île Lagrange and La Conchée .
Participants in a French Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1950 to 1951 named the island after the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650).
Web links
- Descartes Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Descartes Island on geographic.org (English)