Lippmann Islands

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Lippmann Islands
Waters Grandidier Canal
Geographical location 65 ° 30 ′  S , 64 ° 25 ′  W Coordinates: 65 ° 30 ′  S , 64 ° 25 ′  W
Lippmann Islands (Antarctic Peninsula)
Lippmann Islands

The Lippmann Islands are a group of small islands off the Graham Coast in the west of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are distributed over a length of 3 km immediately northwest of Lahille Island .

They were discovered by participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Charcot named it after the French physicist and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Lippmann (1845–1921) as Île Lippmann , because he had mistakenly thought it was a single island. Aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition from 1956 to 1957 and measurements of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1958 uncovered this error.

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