Valette Island
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Valette Island is an island
, 0.2 nautical miles (0.4 km) long, lying in the west side of the entrance to Mill Cove
on the south side of Laurie Island
, in the South Orkney Islands
. Charted by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition
, 1902–04, under Bruce, who named it for L.H. Valette, Argentine meteorologist at the Laurie Island station during 1904.
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...
, 0.2 nautical miles (0.4 km) long, lying in the west side of the entrance to Mill Cove
Mill Cove
Mill Cove is a cove entered between Cape Anderson and Valette Island on the south coast of Laurie Island, in the South Orkney Islands. Charted in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition under Bruce, who named it for Hugh Robert Mill, British geographer and polar historian....
on the south side of Laurie Island
Laurie Island
Laurie Island is an island in the Antarctic Circle, the second largest of the South Orkney Islands. The island is claimed by both Argentina as part of Argentine Antarctica, and the United Kingdom as part of the British Antarctic Territory...
, in the South Orkney Islands
South Orkney Islands
The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean, about north-east of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. They have a total area of about ....
. Charted by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition
The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition , 1902–04, was organised and led by William Speirs Bruce, a natural scientist and former medical student from the University of Edinburgh. Although overshadowed in prestige terms by Robert Falcon Scott's concurrent Discovery Expedition, the SNAE completed...
, 1902–04, under Bruce, who named it for L.H. Valette, Argentine meteorologist at the Laurie Island station during 1904.