Emperor Island
| Emperor Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Archipelago | Dion Islands , Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 52 ′ S , 68 ° 43 ′ W | |
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Emperor Island is a small island to the north of Marguerite Bay off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Dion Islands , it lies immediately northeast of the Courtier Islands .
The islands of this group were discovered and mapped in 1909 during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys in 1948. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1955 after the colony of Emperor penguins ( English Emperor penguins ) on a flat isthmus at the southeast end of the island.
Web links
- Emperor Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Emperor Islands on geographic.org (English)