Pléneau Island
| Pléneau Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 6 ′ 14 ″ S , 64 ° 3 ′ 20 ″ W | |
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| length | 1.3 km | |
The Pleneau Island is a 1.3 km long island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located immediately northeast of the Krogmann Island .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) mapped it as the headland of Krogmann Island. Expedition leader Jean-Baptiste Charcot named it Pointe Pléneau . It is named after Paul Pléneau (1869–1949), photographer on this research trip. It was first shown correctly as an island on an Argentine map from 1957.
Web links
Commons : Pleneau Island - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Pléneau Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pléneau Island on geographic.org (English)