Quintana Island
| Quintana Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 10 ′ S , 64 ° 58 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Quintana Island ( French Île Quintana ) is a small and isolated island off the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 10 km northeast of the Betbeder Islands in the south-western part of the Wilhelm Archipelago .
Participants of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped them in connection with the west-north-west Mazzeo Island and the 1.4 km north of Bergel Rock as an archipelago . Charcot named it after Manuel Quintana (1836–1906), President of Argentina from 1904 to 1906.
Web links
- Quintana Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Quintana Island on geographic.org (English)