Chavez Island
| Chavez Island | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 38 ′ 1 ″ S , 64 ° 31 ′ 35 ″ W | |
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| length | 5 km | |
| Highest elevation | 550 m | |
The Chavez Island ( French Île Chavez ) is a 5 km long and up to 550 m high island off the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located immediately west of the peninsula between Leroux Bay and Bigo Bay .
It was discovered by participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Charcot named the island after the Portuguese meteorologist Francisco Alfonso Chaves [sic!] (1857–1927), who helped the research trip to the Azores .
Web links
- Chavez Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Chavez Island on geographic.org (English)