Hope Island (Antarctica)
| Hope Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 2 ′ S , 56 ° 51 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 35 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Hope Island is an island off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 6 miles west of Turnbull Point on D'Urville Island .
The name of the island is first recorded on a map published in 1822 by the British sealer captain George Powell . The polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville mapped them on the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) and named them as Île Daussy after Pierre Daussy (1792-1860), president of the Société de Géographie .
Web links
- Hope Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hope Island on geographic.org (English)