Buffon Islands
| Buffon Islands | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| archipelago | Geology archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 40 ′ S , 140 ° 1 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 3 | |
The Buffon Islands ( French Îles Buffon ) are a group of three neighboring rocky islands . They extend over a length of 400 m and lie 160 m east of the Pétrel Island in the Géologie archipelago .
French scientists mapped them in 1951 during a research expedition that lasted from 1949 to 1951. They named the islands after the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707–1788).
Web links
- Buffon Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Buffon Islands on geographic.org (English)