Mikkelsen Islands
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Mikkelsen Islands is a small group of islands and rocks lying off the southeast coast of Adelaide Island, 3 km (2 miles) southeast of the Leonie Islands. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1908-10, and named by him for Otto Mikkelsen, Norwegian diver who inspected the damaged hull of the Pourquoi-Pas at Deception Island.
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