Bazzano Island
| Bazzano Island | ||
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| Waters | French passage | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 11 ′ S , 64 ° 9 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Bazzano Island (French Île Bazzano ) is a small island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Graham Coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between Lisboa Island and Boudet Island in front of the southern end of Petermann Island .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) mapped them. Expedition leader Jean-Baptiste Charcot named them after Hamlet Bazzano (1876-1939), director of the Uruguayan national weather bureau , who had supported the research trip .
Web links
- Bazzano Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bazzano Island on geographic.org (English)