Sögen Island
| Sögen Island | ||
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| Waters | Port Charcot ( Booth Island ) | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 4 ′ S , 64 ° 2 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Sögen Island ( French Île Sögen ) is a small island in the Wilhelm Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It forms the east side of the Français Cove on the southwestern extension of Port Charcot in the northern part of Booth Island .
Participants of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped them. Charcot named it after one of his sled dogs who died and is buried here.
Web links
- Sögen Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sögen Island on geographic.org (English)