Sillard Islands () is a group of small ice-covered islands lying close to
Cape Mascart
Adelaide Island is a large, mainly ice-covered island, long and wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Ginger Islands lie off the southern end. Mount Bodys is the easternmost mount ...
, the northeast extremity of
Adelaide Island
Adelaide Island is a large, mainly ice-covered island, long and wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Ginger Islands lie off the southern end. Mount Bodys is the easternmost moun ...
. Discovered by the
French Antarctic Expedition
The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica.
First expedition
In 1772, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec and the naturalist Jean Guillaume Bruguière sailed to the Antarctic region in search of the fabl ...
, 1908–10, under Charcot, and named for
Director Sillard of the
French Montevideo Co., Montevideo, Uruguay, whose company made repairs on Charcot's ship, the ''
Pourquoi Pas ?''.
See also
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List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
Islands of Adelaide Island
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