Lamarck Island
| Lamarck Island | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Archipelago | Geology archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 40 ′ S , 140 ° 2 ′ E | |
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The Lamarck Island ( French Île Lamarck ) is a small, 165 m long rocky island off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It is located 165 m northeast of the Rostand Island in the Géologie archipelago .
French scientists mapped it in the course of a research trip that lasted from 1949 to 1951 and named it after the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829).
Web links
- Lamarck Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lamarck Island on geographic.org (English)