Charlat Island
| Charlat 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 Charlat Island (French Île Charlat ) is a small island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Graham Coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located west of the southern end of Petermann Island .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) discovered it. Expedition leader Jean-Baptiste Charcot named it after the French diplomat Eugène Charlat, Vice- Consul of France in Rio de Janeiro , who assisted the research trip there.
Web links
- Charlat Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Charlat Island on geographic.org (English)