Cobălcescu Island
| Cobălcescu Island | ||
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| Waters | Gerlache Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 11 ′ S , 61 ° 39 ′ W | |
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The Cobălcescu Island ( French Île Cobălcescu ) is a small and snow-free island with two rounded mountain peaks in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 1.5 km southeast of Two Hummock Island .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899), led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery, discovered and named the island. It is named after the Romanian geologist and paleontologist Grigore Cobălcescu (1831-1892), who was one of the lecturers of Emil Racoviță , the biologist on the research trip.
Web links
- Cobalescou Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cobalescou Island on geographic.org (English)