Fournier Island
| Fournier Island | ||
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| Waters | Schollaert Canal | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 34 ′ S , 62 ° 48 ′ W | |
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The Fournier Island ( Spanish Isla Fournier , in the UK Ryswyck Iceland ) is a small island in the Palmer Archipelago off the Danco Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the southern Schollaert Canal , it is 800 m from the eastern branch of the Anvers Island , Cape Van Rijswijck .
Participants of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of the polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped them, but did not name them. The name of the island can be found for the first time on an Argentine map from 1950. It is named after the Argentine minesweeper Fournier , who was deployed on an Argentine Antarctic expedition in 1947 and sank on October 4, 1949 under mysterious circumstances off Isla Dawson in the Strait of Magellan . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee against it took in 1959 a denomination based on that of the Cape Van Rijswijck ( English Ryswyck Point before).
Web links
- Fournier Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fournier Island on geographic.org (English)