Rostand island
| Rostand island | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Archipelago | Geology archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 40 ′ S , 140 ° 1 ′ E | |
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The Rostand Island ( French Île Jean Rostand ) is a small, 330 m long rocky island off the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It is located 170 m southeast of the Pétrel Island in the Géologie archipelago .
French scientists mapped them in the course of a research trip lasting from 1949 to 1951 and named them after the French biologist Jean Rostand (1894–1977).
Web links
- Rostand Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rostand Island on geographic.org (English)