Yalour Islands
| Yalour Islands | ||
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| Waters | French passage | |
| archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 15 ′ S , 64 ° 9 ′ W | |
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The Yalour Islands ( French Îles Yalour ) are a group of islands and rocks in front of the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It extends over a length of 2.5 km in the southern part of the Wilhelm Archipelago and is 1.5 km northwest of Cape Tuxen .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered and named them. It is named after Jorge Yalour (1874–1928), officer on the Argentine corvette Uruguay to rescue the participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) in November 1903.
Web links
- Yalour Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Yalour Islands on geographic.org (English)