Dismal Island
| Dismal Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Archipelago | Faure Islands , Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 5 ′ 37 ″ S , 68 ° 51 ′ 6 ″ W | |
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| length | 1.5 km | |
| Highest elevation | 60 m | |
Dismal Island (from English dismal 'gloomy, desolate, pathetic' ) is a 1.5 km long, up to 60 m high and mainly icy island in Marguerite Bay off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the largest of the Faure Islands .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910), led by polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot, discovered and mapped the Faure Islands in 1909. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out measurements in 1949 and named the island after its desolate and hostile appearance.
Web links
- Dismal Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dismal Island on geographic.org (English)