Thiébault Island
| Thiébault Island | ||
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| Waters | French passage | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 11 ′ S , 64 ° 9 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Thiébault Island ( French Île Thiébault ) 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 west of the Charlat Island in a small group of islands in front of the southern end of the Petermann Island .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) discovered it. The expedition leader Jean-Baptiste Charcot named it after a French diplomat in Argentina , who assisted the research trip there.
Web links
- Thiébault Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Thiébault Island on geographic.org (English)