Pourquoi Pas Island
| Pourquoi Pas Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 41 ′ S , 67 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| length | 29 km | |
| width | 17.5 km | |
| surface | 405 km² | |
| Highest elevation |
Mount Verne 1645 m |
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The Pourquoi Pas Island is a mountainous, 27 km long and 8 to 17.5 km wide Antarctic island . It is located between the Bigourdan Fjord and the Bourgeois Fjord west of the Fallières coast and south of the Loubet coast , both of which belong to the graham land on the Antarctic Peninsula .
It was discovered during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill made a more precise survey of the island . Rymill named it after Charcot's expedition ship, the Pourquoi Pas? .
Web links
- Pourquoi Pas Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pourquoi Pas Island on geographic.org (English)
- Map of the region ( Memento of February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
