Courtier Islands
| Courtier Islands | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| archipelago | Dion Islands , Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 52 ′ S , 68 ° 43 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 24 | |
The Courtier Islands (English for courtier islands ) are a group of around 24 small and up to 30 m high islands and cliffs in the northern Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the West Antarctic Graham Land . They belong to the group of the Dion Islands .
The islands were discovered and roughly mapped in 1909 during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . The Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys in 1949. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on 31 March 1955 at the context Emperor Iceland (English for Emperor Island ).
Web links
- Courtier Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Courtier Islands on geographic.org (English)