Descartes Island
Descartes Island is a rocky island 0.2 kilometres long, midway between Lagrange Island and La Conchee and 1.7 kilometres north-northeast of Cape Mousse.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Adélie Land, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Descartes, Ile”, “Ile Descartes”, and “Île Descartes”
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. Port Martin is situated 6 km southwest of Descartes Island.
Descartes Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Descartes Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Descartes”
- Chinese: “笛卡兒島”
- Dutch: “Descartes Island”
- Dutch: “Descartes”
- German: “Descartes Island”
- German: “Île Descartes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Descartesøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Descartes Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Île Descartes”
- Norwegian: “Descartesøya”
- Swedish: “Descartes Island”
- Swedish: “Descartes”
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