Sillard Islands
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Sillard Islands is a group of small ice-covered islands lying close to Cape Mascart
, the northeast extremity of Adelaide Island
. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition
, 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 ?
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Cape Mascart
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....
, the northeast extremity of Adelaide Island
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....
, 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 ?
Pourquoi Pas ? IV
The Pourquoi Pas ? IV was the fourth ship built for Jean-Baptiste Charcot. She completed the second Charcot expedition of the Antarctic regions from 1908 to 1910. Charcot died aboard when she was wrecked on 16 September 1936...
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