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Sögen Island is an
island An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be ...
forming the east side of
Francais Cove Booth Island (or Wandel Island) is a rugged, Y-shaped island, long and rising to off the northwest coast of Kyiv Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica in the northeastern part of the Wilhelm Archipelago. The narrow passage between the island a ...
, lying in the southwest extremity of Port Charcot, which indents the north part of Booth Island, in the
Wilhelm Archipelago The Wilhelm Archipelago is an island archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. Wilhelm Archipelago consists of numerous islands, the largest of which are Booth Island and Hovgaard Island. The archipelago extends ...
. 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 ...
, 1903–05, under Charcot, and named for one of the dogs which died and was buried here. The name has been approved because of its long use.


See also

* List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands Islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago {{WilhelmArchipelago-geo-stub