Le Marais
Coordinates: 66 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ S , 141 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ E
Le Marais (French for The marshland is) a small, mostly icy and rocky outcrops skirted area on the coast of the East Antarctic Adélielands . It forms part of the peninsula behind Cape Découverte .
In the Antarctic summer months, the area is characterized by numerous muddy meltwater pools , to which it owes its descriptive name. It was named by participants in a French Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1950 to 1951.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Le Marais in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed March 9, 2018
- ↑ a b Marais, Le (FRA) in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on March 9, 2018