Charcot Island
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Charcot Island or Charcot Land is an island off Antarctica, 30 miles long and 25 miles wide, which is ice covered except for prominent mountains overlooking the north coast, 55 miles west of Alexander Island. Charcot Island is located at . Charcot Island was discovered on January 11, 1910, by the French Antarctic Expedition under Dr. Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who, at the insistence of his crew and the recommendation of Edwin S. Balch and others, named it Charcot Land. He did so with the stated intention of honoring his father, Dr. Jean Martin Charcot, a famous French physician. The insularity of Charcot Land was proved by Sir Hubert Wilkins, who flew around it on December 29, 1929.
