Lientur Channel

Lemaire Island () is an island long and wide, lying west of Duthiers Point off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.

Location

Lemaire Island is off the Danco Coast on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula.
It is near the southern end of the Gerlache Strait, opposite Wiencke Island to the west.
It is west of Rongé Island and Andvord Bay, and north of Bryde Island and Paradise Harbour.

Cruise ships that have sailed along the Neumayer Channel to Port Lockroy often pass by Lemaire Island when taking a different route to return.

Description

The ''Sailing Directions for Antarctica'' (1976) describes Lemaire Island as follows:

Discovery and name

Lemaire Island was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE), 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, who named it for Charles Antoine Lemaire.

Features

Memorial Point

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On 3 October 2017, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) approved the name "Memorial Point" for the western tip of Lemaire Island.
It commemorates all British personnel who died while working in Antarctica, and who have not had features named after them as individuals.

Rojas Peak

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A peak rising to about high in the center of Lemaire Island.
Named "Cerro Rojas" by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1950-51, after Sargento Angel Gustavo Rojas, who disappeared in a blizzard while returning from hydrographic work at Discovery Bay, Greenwich Island, September 1, 1949.

Muñoz Point

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The southeast point of Lemaire Island.
First mapped by the BelgAE, 1897-99.
Named "Punta Munoz" by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1950-51, after Roberto Labra Muñoz, in charge of General Bernardo O'Higgins Station, 1950-51.

Molina Point

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The eastern point of Lemaire Island.
Named "Punta Molina" by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1950-51, possibly after a member of the expedition.

Nearby features

Lautaro Island

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An island long, lying just west of Lemaire Island in Gerlache Strait.
Probably first seen by the BelgAE (1897-99) under Adrien de Gerlache.
Named by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1948-49) after the ''Lautaro'', one of the Chilean expedition ships working in the area that season.

O'Neill Point

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The north point of Lautaro Island, lying west-southwest of Lemaire Island.
Named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1977 for Vincent Michael O'Neill, FIDS radio operator and mechanic at Danco Island, 1957-58, and Deception Island, 1958-59.

Siebert Rock

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A rock off the southwest point of Lemaire Island in the entrance to Lientur Channel.
Charted by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1950-51, and named after Capitán de Corbeta Ernesto Siebert G., engineer officer on the expedition transport ship ''Angamos''.

Lientur Channel

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Channel between Lemaire Island and Bryde Island connecting Paradise Harbor with Gerlache Strait.
First roughly charted by the BelgAE, 1897-99.
Named by the fourth Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1949-50) after the ''Lientur'', one of the ships used during this expedition.

Aguirre Cerda Passage

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A marine channel between Lemaire Island and Danco Coast, permitting northern access to Paradise Harbor.
The feature was navigated by the ship ''Belgica'' (BelgAE, 1897-99) and was known to Norwegian whalers in the area from 1913.
Chilean Antarctic Expeditions operated a science station on Waterboat Point at Aguirre Passage from 1951-73.
Named by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1950-51, after Don Pedro Aguirre Cerda (1879-1941), President of Chile, 1938-41.

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Islands of the Palmer Archipelago