Pointe Irène
| Pointe Irène | ||
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 41 ′ S , 139 ° 51 ′ E | |
| location | Adélieland , East Antarctica | |
| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
The Pointe Irène is a headland on the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It is a northern branch of Cape Géodésie west of the Astrolabe Glacier .
Georges Schwartz (* 1920), participant in a French Antarctic expedition (1951–1952), named her after the first name of a dancer who, like himself , had belonged to the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo .
Web links
- Irène, Pointe in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)