Île aux mushrooms
| Île aux mushrooms | ||
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| Waters | Baie Pierre Lejay | |
| Archipelago | Geology archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 40 ′ S , 139 ° 57 ′ E | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Île aux Champignons ( French for 'island with mushrooms') is an island in the Géologie archipelago off the coast of the Antarctic Adélieland . It is located east of the Sept-Îles and north of the Governor Island in the Baie Pierre Lejay .
French researchers named them after the large, mushroom-shaped deposits of spray ice that form on their coast each winter.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Champignons, Île aux in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on November 17, 2019