Rabot Island
| Rabot Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 54 ′ 12 ″ S , 65 ° 57 ′ 17 ″ W | |
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| length | 8 kilometers | |
| width | 3.2 km | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Rabot Island is an 8 km long and 3.2 km wide island in the archipelago of Biscoe Islands west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 1.6 km southeast of Renaud Island , from which it is separated by the Rodman Passage .
The British whaler John Biscoe discovered them in 1832. Scientists of the 1908 fifth French Antarctic expedition led by polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped them. Charcot named the islands after the French geographer Charles Rabot (1856–1944).
Web links
- Rabot Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rabot Island on geographic.org (English)