Geology archipelago
| Geology archipelago | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 39 ′ S , 139 ° 55 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | > 20 | |
The Géologie Archipelago is a small archipelago of rocky islands and reef cliffs off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It lies north of Cape Géodésie and the Astrolabe glacier tongue and extends from Hélène Island in the west to Pasteur Island in the Dumoulin Islands in the east. In addition to these, the following islands belong to it:
- Marégraphe Island (Île du Marégraphe),
- Rostand Island (Île Jean Rostand),
- Carrel Island (Île Alexis Carrel),
- Lamarck Island (Île Lamarck),
- Governor Island (Île du Gouverneur),
- Pétrel Island (Île des Pétrels),
- Bernard Island (Île Claude Bernard),
- Île du Lion ,
- Buffon Islands (Îles Buffon),
- Curie Island (Île Curie),
- Fram Islands (Îles Fram),
- Cuvier Island (Île Cuvier),
- Ifo Island (Île Ifo),
- Rocher du Débarquement .
Participants of the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) under the direction of polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville landed on the Débarquement Rocks and the Dumoulin Islands in January 1840 to collect geological material. Consequently, they named a landmark on the mainland coast south of the Debarquement rocks as Pointe Géologie . Today's archipelago was partially mapped using aerial photographs taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). After measurements by French scientists between 1950 and 1952, they gave the entire archipelago the name it is today.
Web links
- Géologie Archipelago in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Géologie Archipelago on geographic.org (English)
- Map of the archipelago