Clements Island
| Clements Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 56 ′ 3 ″ S , 65 ° 58 ′ 9 ″ W | |
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| length | 1.5 km | |
Clements Island is a 1.5 km long island off the west coast of West Antarctic Graham Land . It is located south of Rabot Island in the Biscoe Islands archipelago .
The French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot named in the course of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) an unclearly assignable island northeast of the Renaud Island in the group of islands known today as the Pitt Islands as Île Clements Markham . The assignment made later is based on a map that was created on the basis of measurements by the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . Namesake is the British geographer and explorer Clements Markham (1830-1916), President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1893 to 1905. To distinguish it from the island of Markham Island in the East Antarctic Terra Nova Bay , the original name was shortened to the first name.
Web links
- Clements Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Clements Island on geographic.org (English)