Lecointe Island
| Lecointe Island | ||
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| Waters | Gerlache Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 16 ′ S , 62 ° 3 ′ W | |
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Lecointe Island is an elongated, 6 km long and up to 700 m high island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . The Pampa Passage separates it from the east coast of the Brabant Island .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery made the first measurements of the island. De Gerlache named its northern extension as Cape Kaiser . Further measurements by British scientists followed between 1955 and 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the island in 1957 after the deputy head of the Belgica expedition, the Belgian geophysicist Georges Lecointe (1869-1929).
Web links
- Lecointe Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lecointe Island on geographic.org (English)