Barbière Island
| Bar Island | ||
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| Waters | Penola Strait | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 11 ′ S , 64 ° 9 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Barbière Island ( French Île Barbière ) is the southernmost island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in front of the southern end of the Petermann Island .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) mapped them. Expedition leader Jean-Baptiste Charcot named it after M. Barbière, who was a port engineer in Recife, Brazil, who assisted the research trip in 1910.
Web links
- Barbière Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barbière Island on geographic.org (English)