Curzon Islands
| Curzon Islands | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 46 ′ S , 141 ° 35 ′ E | |
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| Main island | Île du Retour | |
The Curzon Islands are a group of small rocky islands off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . You are right in front of Cape Découverte .
They were first sighted probably in January 1840 during the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) under the direction of the polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville . Captain John King Davis mapped them in 1912 with the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson and named them after George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859-1925), President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1911 to 1914. Participants in a French Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1950 to 1952 carried out detailed mapping.
The Île au Guano is part of it .
Web links
- Curzon Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Curzon Islands on geographic.org (English)