Lajarte Islands
| Lajarte Islands | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 14 ′ S , 63 ° 29 ′ W | |
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The Lajarte Islands ( French Îles Dufaure de Lajarte ) are a group of islands in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located immediately west of Cape Greenland off the north coast of Anvers Island .
The German polar explorer Eduard Dallmann discovered them during his Antarctic voyage with the auxiliary sailor Groenland between 1873 and 1874. Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) led by polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped them. Charcot named it after Captain Henri Louis Dufaure de Lajarte (1852-1911) of the French Navy .
Web links
- Lajarte Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lajarte Islands on geographic.org (English)