Marie Island
| Marie Island | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 7 ′ 31 ″ S , 65 ° 43 ′ 27 ″ W | |
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| length | 3 km | |
Marie Island is a 3 km long island off the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located immediately north of Cape Evensen .
Participants of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of the polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot named an alleged headland in the vicinity of Cape Evensen as Pointe Marie . Namesake is a sister of Charcot. During the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) Charcot transferred the name to the southern foothills of an island, which he called Île Waldeck-Rousseau . Measurements by the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill showed that Charcot's supposed island is actually Waldeck-Rousseau Peak on the Antarctic mainland. In order to preserve Charcot's name, Rymill transferred it to the island described here.
Web links
- Marie Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Marie Island on geographic.org (English)