Detour Island
| Detour Island | ||
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| Waters | Lemaire Channel | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 1 ′ S , 63 ° 55 ′ W | |
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Detour Island (from English detour , diversion, detour ' ) is an island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 4 km west of False Cape Renard on the west side of the Lemaire Canal .
Participants of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the island that way in 1959 because it is close to the ship passage west of Booth Island , which is an alternative route in case the Lemaire Channel is blocked by sea ice .
Web links
- Detour Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Detour Island on geographic.org (English)