Île Marguerite
| Île Marguerite | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Archipelago | Max Douguet Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 47 ′ S , 141 ° 23 ′ E | |
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The Ile Marguerite , also known as Marguerite Iceland , is a rocky island off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélielands . It is located 1.1 m northwest of the Île de l'Empereur and 2.8 km north-northwest of Cape Margerie .
Participants in a French Antarctic expedition mapped and named it in 1951. It is named after the wife of the mechanic René Dova, who worked at the Port-Martin station that year .
Web links
- Marguerite Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Marguerite Island on geographic.org (English)