Lobel Island
| Lobel Island | ||
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| Waters | Nimrod Passage | |
| Archipelago | Wauwermans Islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 58 '33 " S , 63 ° 51' 42" W | |
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| length | 1.5 km | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Lobel Island ( French Îles Loic de Lobel ) is a 1.5 km island in the Wilhelm Archipelago west of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Wauwermans Islands it is 3 km southwest of Brown Island .
Participants of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped them. Charcot named it after Baron Léon Loïcq de Lobel, a French engineer who in 1906 had drawn up a plan for the transport link between Alaska and Eastern Siberia .
Web links
- Lobel Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lobel Island on geographic.org (English)