Île du Nord

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Île du Nord
Waters Lake D'Urville
Archipelago Curzon Islands
Geographical location 66 ° 45 ′  S , 141 ° 33 ′  E Coordinates: 66 ° 45 ′  S , 141 ° 33 ′  E
Île du Nord (Antarctica)
Île du Nord

The Île du Nord (meaning North Island ), also known as North Island , is a small and rocky island off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It is, which should also be expressed by its name, the northernmost of the Curzon Islands .

Participants in a French Antarctic expedition lasting from 1949 to 1951 carried out the mapping and descriptive naming in 1951.

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