Carrel Island
| Carrel Island | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Archipelago | Geology archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 40 ′ S , 140 ° 1 ′ E | |
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The Carrel Island ( French Île Alexis Carrel ) is a small, 400 m long rocky island off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It is located 170 m south of the Pétrel Island in the Géologie Archipelago .
French scientists mapped it during a research trip that lasted from 1949 to 1951 and named it after the French Nobel Prize for Medicine Alexis Carrel (1873–1944).
Web links
- Carrel Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Carrel Island on geographic.org (English)