Darboux Island
| Darboux Island | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 24 ′ 8 ″ S , 64 ° 12 ′ 55 ″ W | |
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| length | 1.5 km | |
The Darboux Island ( French Île Darboux ) is a 1.5 km long and up to 270 m high island off the Graham coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 5 km west of Cape Pérez .
They were discovered by participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Charcot named it after the French mathematician Gaston Darboux (1842–1917).
Web links
- Darboux Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Darboux Island on geographic.org (English)