Racoviță Islands
| Racoviță Islands | ||
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| Waters | Wilhelmina Bay | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 32 ′ S , 62 ° 5 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 3 | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Racoviță Islands are a group of three islands off the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . In Wilhelmina Bay they are just north of Nansen Island .
Scientists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveyed and named between 1956 and 1957. It is named after the Romanian biologist Emil Racoviță (1868–1947), who worked as a botanist on the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery .
Web links
- Racovitza Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Racovitza Islands on geographic.org (English)