Cape Mascart
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Cape Mascart is a cape forming the northern extremity of Adelaide Island
. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition
, 1903–05, under Charcot, and named by him for Eleuthere Mascart
, French physicist and Dir. of the Bureau Central Meteorologique.
Adelaide Island
Adelaide Island or Isla Adelaida or Isla Belgrano 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 island lies within the Argentine, British and Chilean Antarctic claims, at .Adelaide Island was...
. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition
French Antarctic Expedition
French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French expeditions in Antarctica.-First expedition:Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was a French explorer....
, 1903–05, under Charcot, and named by him for Eleuthere Mascart
Éleuthère Mascart
Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart was a noted French physicist, a researcher in optics and electricity.Mascart was born in Quarouble, Nord. He attended the École normale supérieure...
, French physicist and Dir. of the Bureau Central Meteorologique.