Davis Island (Antarctica)
| Davis Island | ||
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| Waters | Bouquet Bay | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 6 ′ S , 62 ° 4 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Davis Island ( English ; French Île Davis ) is an approximately 3 km long island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located between the Brabant Island and Liège Island .
The island was roughly mapped and photographed by participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1897) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache . In contrast, it was named by the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot during his Antarctic expedition, which lasted from 1903 to 1905, in honor of Walter Gould Davis (1851-1919), the then director of the Office for Meteorology in Argentina . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated this name into English in 1960.
Web links
- Davis Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Davis Island on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 397 and p. 399 (English).