Louise Island
| Louise Island | ||
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| Waters | Wilhelmina Bay | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 36 ′ 17 ″ S , 62 ° 22 ′ 33 ″ W | |
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| length | 1 km | |
The Louise Island ( French Île Louise ) is a 1 km long island off the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 1.5 km east of Cape Anna and just as far west of Emma Island on the southwest side of the entrance to Wilhelmina Bay .
Participants of the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery discovered it in January 1898. De Gerlache named the island after his sister.
Web links
- Louise Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Louise Island on geographic.org (English)