Pasteur Island
| Pasteur Island | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Archipelago | Dumoulin Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 37 ′ S , 140 ° 6 ′ E | |
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The Pasteur Island ( French Île Pasteur ) is a small rocky island off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It is located at the southeast end of the Dumoulin Islands in the Géologie archipelago north of the Astrolabe glacier tongue .
Aerial photos of the island were taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). French scientists mapped it in the course of a research expedition lasting from 1949 to 1951 and named it after the French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1822–1895).
Web links
- Pasteur Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pasteur Island on geographic.org (English)