Roux Island
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Roux Island is an island
2 nautical miles (3.7 km) long, lying 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) north of Arrowsmith Peninsula
at the west side of the entrance to Lallemand Fjord
, off the west coast of Graham Land
. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition
under Charcot, 1908–10, who named it for Jules Charles-Roux.
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...
2 nautical miles (3.7 km) long, lying 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) north of Arrowsmith Peninsula
Arrowsmith Peninsula
Arrowsmith Peninsula is a cape about long on the west coast of Graham Land, west of Forel Glacier, Sharp Glacier and Lallemand Fjord, and northwest of Bourgeois Fjord, with Hanusse Bay lying to the northwest. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955-58 and named for...
at the west side of the entrance to Lallemand Fjord
Lallemand Fjord
The Lallemand Fjord is a fjord located east of Arrowsmith Peninsula and west of Pernik Peninsula on Loubet Coast on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula...
, 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....
under Charcot, 1908–10, who named it for Jules Charles-Roux.