Rescapé Islands
Rescapé Islands is a small group of rocky islands lying 0.5 nautical miles northwest of Cape Margerie along the Adélie Coast. Surveyed by the French Antarctic Expedition under Andre Liotard, and named in remembrance of an incident of the disembarkation at nearby Port Martin station, when a ship's boat was carried away by the wind.- Type: Island
- Description: Island group in Adélie Land, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Rescape Islands”, “Rescapés, Ile des”, and “Rescapés, Iles des”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Martin.
Port Martin
Locality
Port Martin, or Port-Martin, is an abandoned French research base at Cape Margerie on the coast of Adélie Land, Antarctica, as well as the name of the adjacent anchorage.
Rescapé Islands
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Rescapé Islands” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Rescapé Islands”
- Chinese: “里斯凱普群島”
- Dutch: “Rescape Islands”
- German: “Îles des Rescapés”
- German: “Inseln der Überlebenden”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Île des Rescapés”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rescape Islands”
- Swedish: “Rescapé Islands”
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