Doumer Island

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Doumer Island (64°51′S, 63°35′W) is an island 4.5 miles (7 km) long and 2 miles (3.2 km) wide, surmounted by a snow-covered pyramidal peak, 515 m, lying between the south portions of Anvers Island and Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago. First seen by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897-99, under Gerlache. Resighted and charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903-05, under Charcot, who named it for Paul Doumer, President of the Chamber of Deputies and later President of France.

Chile has a summer-only research station there, called Yelcho, administrated by the Chilean Antarctic Institute.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

• List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

[edit] References

• USGS GNIS: Doumer Island