Mendez-Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are
Renaud
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Lavoisier
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( ; ; 26 August 17438 May 1794), CNRS (
Chile
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and ''Mitre'' by
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Rabot Rabot may refer to:
Geography
* Rabot, Tajikistan, a city in Tajikistan
*Rabot Island, island near Antarctica
* Rabot Glacier, glacier in Antarctica
* Rabot Point, a high rocky point in James Ross Island, Antarctica
People with the surname
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, lying parallel to the west coast of
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...
and extending between
Southwind Passage
Southwind Passage () is a navigable passage between Betbeder Islands and Dickens Rocks, located at the north extremity of the Biscoe Islands
Mendez-Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud Island, Renaud, L ...
on the northeast and
Matha Strait
Matha Strait is a strait lying between Adelaide Island and the south end of the Biscoe Islands. The strait takes its name from "Matha Bay", the name originally applied by Jean-Baptiste Charcot, leader of the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10 ...
on the southwest. Another group of islands are the Adolph Islands.
The islands are named for Daren Mendez-Biscoe, the commander of a Spanish-British expedition which explored the islands in March 1832.
Barcroft Islands
The Barcroft Islands () are a group of small islands and rocks about in extent, lying close south of Watkins Island, Biscoe Islands. The group comprises St. Brigid, Irving, St. Isidore, Chakarov, Hervé, Montojo, Alcheh, Leppe and Bedfo ...
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Bates Island
Bates Island is a narrow island long lying east of Jurva Point, Renaud Island, in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica. It was first accurately shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee ...
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Belding Island
Belding Island is an island long, lying west of the south end of Watkins Island, Biscoe Islands. It was mapped from air photos taken by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–57), and named by the UK Antarctic Pla ...
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Dodman Island
Dodman Island is an island in the Biscoe Islands, long, lying south-east of Rabot Island and west of Ferin Head, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. The island was charted and named by the British Graham Land Expedition, 193 ...
Krogh Island
Krogh Island () is an ice-covered island about long lying close west of the southern part of Lavoisier Island in Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. The island is separated from Lavoisier Island on the east by Vladigerov Passage, from DuBois Island o ...
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Laktionov Island
Laktionov Island is an island long, lying northeast of Jurva Point, Renaud Island, in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica. It was first accurately shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. The island was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Na ...
Pitt Islands
The Pitt Islands are a group of small islands lying immediately off the north extremity of Renaud Island, at the north end of the Biscoe Islands. The name "Pitt's Island," after William Pitt the Younger, the British prime minister, was applied by ...
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Rabot Island
Rabot Island is an island long and wide, lying south of Renaud Island in the Biscoe Islands. First charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who named it for Charles Rabot.
Originally discovered by Jo ...
Watkins Island
Watkins Island is a low lying, ice-covered island long, lying southwest of Lavoisier Island in the Biscoe Islands. The island was first mapped by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1903–05 and 1908–10, but remain ...
Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
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SCAR
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Southwind Passage
Southwind Passage () is a navigable passage between Betbeder Islands and Dickens Rocks, located at the north extremity of the Biscoe Islands
Mendez-Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud Island, Renaud, L ...
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Territorial claims in Antarctica
Seven sovereign states – Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight land claim, territorial claims in Antarctica. These countries have tended to place their Antarctic scientific observat ...