Somerville Island
| Somerville Island | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 23 ′ S , 64 ° 18 ′ W | |
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The Somerville Island ( French Îlot Somerville ) is a small island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Graham Coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 6 km southwest of the Berthelot Islands and 4 km northwest of Darboux Island .
It was discovered by participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Charcot named it after David Maitland Makgill Crichton Somerville (1850-1915), British proconsul in Christiania , who had overseen the making of clothing and equipment for the research trip.
Web links
- Somerville Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Somerville Island on geographic.org (English)