Île Laplace
| Île Laplace | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 47 ′ S , 141 ° 28 ′ E | |
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The Île Laplace is a small and rocky island off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It is located 500 m west-northwest of the island of La Conchée and 12 km north of Cape Mousse .
Participants in a French Antarctic expedition, which lasted from 1950 to 1951, mapped the island and named it after the French astronomer and mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace (1794-1827).
Web links
- Laplace Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Laplace Island on geographic.org (English)