Ménier Island
| Ménier Island | ||
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| Waters | Bay of Flanders | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 58 ′ 51 ″ S , 63 ° 35 ′ 40 ″ W | |
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| length | 1.2 km | |
| width | 880 m | |
| surface | 1.05 km² | |
The Ménier Island is a towering and snow-covered island before the Danco Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 6 km northeast of Cape Renard in the entrance to the Bay of Flanders .
It is the largest of a group of small islands that the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot called Îles Ménier during his first Antarctic expedition ( 1903-1905 ) . After a checkered history, in which the entire group or the island described here were optionally titled as the Guyou Islands , Guyou Islands and Ménier Group on maps , the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided in 1953 that Charcot was first named to this island restrict. The namesake is not known.
Web links
- Ménier Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ménier Island on geographic.org (English)