Île des Mirages
| Île des Mirages | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Archipelago | Curzon Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 141 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 400 m | |
The Île des Mirage , also known as Mirage Island (from French and English mirage 'mirage , deception, delusion' ), is a rocky and 400 m long island off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It is located 500 m west of Cape Mousse at the north-western end of the group of Curzon Islands .
Participants of the 1949 permanent and 1951 French Antarctic Expedition took in 1950 a mapping before and named the island after the allegedly observed here mirages .
Web links
- Mirage Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mirage Island on geographic.org (English)