Casabianca Island
Casabianca Island is a low, rocky island lying in Neumayer Channel 1 kilometre northeast of Damoy Point, Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1903–05, who named it for Monsieur Casabianca, then French Administrator of Naval Enlistment.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: Island in Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Islote Casabianca”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tombstone Hill and Goudier Island.
Tombstone Hill
Peak
Tombstone Hill is a hill which rises to 50 m close east-northeast of Damoy Point, Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It was discovered and first mapped by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Charcot.
Goudier Island
Islet
Photo: *christopher*, CC BY 2.0.
Goudier Island is a small island with an appearance of bare, polished rock, lying 0.05 nautical miles north of Jougla Point in the harbour of Port Lockroy, Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.
Bills Island
Islet
Bills Island is an island in Antarctica. It lies northeast of Goudier Island in the harbor of Port Lockroy, in the Palmer Archipelago. It was discovered and charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot.
Casabianca Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Casabianca Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Casabianca”
- Chinese: “卡薩布蘭卡島”
- Dutch: “Casabianca Island”
- Dutch: “Casabianca”
- German: “Casabianca-Insel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Casabianca Island”
- Spanish: “Casabianca, islote”
- Swedish: “Casabianca Island”
- Swedish: “Casabianca”
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Highlights include Dorian Bay and Lockroy, Port.
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