Guépratte Island
| Guépratte Island | ||
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| Waters | Fournier Bay | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 29 '43 " S , 62 ° 59' 43" W | |
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| length | 2.5 km | |
The Guépratte Island ( French Île Guépratte ) is an icy and 2.5 km long island in the Palmer Archipelago west of Grahamland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located between the Anvers and Brabant islands on the east side of the entrance to Fournier Bay .
The island is shown for the first time on a map by the German cartographer Ludwig Friederichsen from 1895, which he made on the basis of Eduard Dallmann's results during the Antarctic voyage with the Groenland (1873-1874). Another mapping took place during the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of the polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Charcot named the island after Émile Paul Aimable Guépratte (1856-1939), then captain and later admiral of the French Navy . It was renamed Discovery Island in 1927 by scientists from the British Discovery Investigations .
Web links
- Guépratte Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Guépratte Island on geographic.org (English)