Darboux Island
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Darboux Island is an island
1 nautical mile (1.9 km) long rising to 270 m, lying 3 nautical miles (6 km) west of Cape Perez
off the west coast of Graham Land
. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition
, 1903–05, and named by Charcot for Jean Gaston Darboux
, noted French mathematician.
Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...
1 nautical mile (1.9 km) long rising to 270 m, lying 3 nautical miles (6 km) west of Cape Perez
Cape Perez
Cape Perez is a prominent cape between Collins Bay and Beascochea Bay on Kiev Peninsula, the west coast of Graham Land. Discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache, but apparently not named by them until about 1904, when in working up their scientific reports they gave...
off the west coast of Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which 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 the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
. 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, and named by Charcot for Jean Gaston Darboux
Jean Gaston Darboux
Jean-Gaston Darboux was a French mathematician.-Life:Darboux made several important contributions to geometry and mathematical analysis . He was a biographer of Henri Poincaré and he edited the Selected Works of Joseph Fourier.Darboux received his Ph.D...
, noted French mathematician.