Casy Island
| Casy Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 14 ′ S , 57 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Casy Island ( French Île Casy ) is an island off the west coast of the Trinity Peninsula in the north of the West Antarctic Graham Land . It is the largest of a group of small islands, 3 km southeast of Lafarge Rocks and 5 km northeast of Coupvent Point .
Participants of the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) under the direction of the navigator and polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville discovered and named them. It is named after the later politician and admiral Joseph Grégoire Casy (1787–1862), a friend of d'Urville and adjutant of the then French naval minister Claude du Campe de Rosamel (1774–1848).
Web links
- Casy Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Casy Island on geographic.org (English)