Cholet Island
| Bar Island | ||
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| Waters | Port Charcot | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 4 ′ S , 64 ° 2 ′ W | |
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The Cholet Island (French Îlot Cholet ) a small island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Graham Coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies north of a narrow peninsula that forms the western branch of Booth Island .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) discovered it. Expedition leader Jean-Baptiste Charcot named them after Ernest Cholet, captain of the Pourquoi-Pas? at this and the Français at Charcot's previous expedition (1903–1905).
Web links
- Cholet Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cholet Island on geographic.org (English)