Cuvier Island
| Cuvier Island | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Archipelago | Geology archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 39 ′ S , 140 ° 1 ′ E | |
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The Cuvier Island ( French Île Cuvier ) is a 165 m long rocky island off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It is located 310 m north of the western part of the Pétrel Island in the Géologie archipelago .
French scientists mapped it in 1951 during a research trip that lasted from 1949 to 1951 and named it after the French naturalist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832).
Web links
- Cuvier Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cuvier Island on geographic.org (English)