Doumer Island
| Doumer Island | ||
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| Waters | Neumayer Canal | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 51 ′ 1 ″ S , 63 ° 33 ′ 5 ″ W | |
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| length | 7 km | |
| width | 3.2 km | |
| Highest elevation |
Doumer Hill 515 m |
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| main place | Yelcho station | |
The Doumer Island ( French Île Doumer ) is a predominantly snow and ice-covered island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located between the southern sections of the Anvers and Wiencke islands in the southern entrance to the Neumayer Canal . The highest point is the 515 m high Doumer Hill .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery discovered them. Participants of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot carried out the first mapping. Charcot named the island after the French politician Paul Doumer (1857-1932), then chairman of the Chambre des députés and later President of France .
Chile operates the Yelcho station on the island , a research station that is only manned in summer. A 96 hectare area in the interior of the South Bay is declared as a specially protected area No. 146 ( Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 146 ) in order to keep a long-term marine ecological research program in Chile free from disturbances.
Web links
- Doumer Island in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
- Doumer Island on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ South Bay, Doumer Island, Palmer Archipelago (PDF; 73 kB), Management Plan, accessed on June 26, 2016 (English)