DuBois Island
| DuBois Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 16 ′ S , 67 ° 10 ′ W | |
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DuBois Island is an island west of the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . At the southern end of the Biscoe Islands archipelago , it is 1.5 km west of Krogh Island in front of the western entrance to Lewis Sound .
The island was mapped using aerial photographs taken by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the American physician Eugene Floyd DuBois (1882-1959), whose areas of study included basic human metabolism and the regulation of body temperature.
Web links
- DuBois Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- DuBois Island on geographic.org (English)