Bernard Island
| Bernard Island | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Archipelago | Geology archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 40 ′ S , 140 ° 2 ′ E | |
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The Bernard Island ( French Île Claude Bernard ) is a 400 m long rocky island off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It is located 80 m east of the Buffon Islands in the Géologie archipelago .
French scientists mapped it in the course of a research trip lasting from 1949 to 1951 and named it after the French physiologist Claude Bernard (1813–1878).
Web links
- Bernard Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bernard Island on geographic.org (English)