Lemaire Island
| Lemaire Island | ||
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| Waters | Gerlache Street | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 48 '34 " S , 62 ° 57' 16" W | |
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| length | 7 km | |
| width | 2.5 km | |
| Highest elevation |
Rojas Peak 675 m |
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The Lemaire Island ( French Île Lemaire ) is an island off the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 0.7 miles west of Waterboat Point .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery discovered them. De Gerlache named the island after Charles François Alexandre Lemaire (1863-1925), Belgian African explorer and district commissioner in the Belgian Congo , who helped prepare the expedition.
Web links
- Lemaire Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lemaire Island on geographic.org (English)