La Conchée
| La Conchée | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 141 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 400 m | |
La Conchée is a rocky and 400 m long island off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It is located 1.1 km north-northeast of Cape Mousse between the islands of Île Pascal and Île Monge .
Participants in a French Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1950 to 1951 mapped the island and named it after the Fort de la Conchée in the Gulf of Saint-Malo .
Web links
- La Conchée in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- La Conchée on geographic.org (English)