Moureaux Islands
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| Waters | Bay of Flanders | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 5 ′ S , 63 ° 7 ′ W | |
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The Moureaux Islands ( French Îles Moureaux ) are a group of two islands and some cliff rocks off the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located 4 km west-northwest of Pelletan Point in the Bay of Flanders .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery mapped them. De Gerlache, who landed on one of the islands in February 1898, named it after Claude-Théodule-Hirman Moureaux (1842-1919), director of the observatory in Parc Saint-Maur near Paris.
Web links
- Moureaux Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Moureaux Islands on geographic.org (English)