Lisboa Island
| Lisboa Island | ||
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| Waters | Penola Strait | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 11 ′ S , 64 ° 9 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Lisboa Island ( French Ile Lisboa ) is an island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Graham Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the southernmost of the small islands off the southern end of Petermann Island .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) mapped them. Expedition leader Jean-Baptiste Charcot named it after the Brazilian politician Henrique Carlos Ribeiro Lisboa (1849–1920), his home country's minister for relations with Uruguay , who had supported the research trip to Montevideo .
Web links
- Lisboa Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lisboa Island on geographic.org (English)