Île de l'Empereur
| Île de l'Empereur | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Archipelago | Max Douguet Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 48 ′ S , 141 ° 23 ′ E | |
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The Île de l'Empereur (roughly translated from French as Emperor Penguin Island ), also known as Empereur Island , is a rocky island off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It is located 350 m northeast of the Îlot Breton north of Cape Margerie in the entrance to Port Martin .
The first aerial photographs of the island were taken during the US operation Highjump (1946–1947). Participants in a French Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1949 to 1951 carried out a mapping and named it. It is named after the fact that the first emperor penguin captured on this research trip came from this island.
Web links
- Empereur Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Empereur Island on geographic.org (English)