Gouverneur Island
Gouverneur Island is a low rocky island 2.2 kilometres west-southwest of Petrel Island and 4.4 kilometres east of Cape Géodésie in the southern part of the Géologie Archipelago, Antarctica.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Gouverneur, Ile du”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pétrel Island.
Pétrel Island
Islet
Photo: Ehquionest, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Petrel Island is a rocky island, 900 m long and 45 m in elevation, which lies north-west of Rostand Island and is the largest feature in the cluster of islands at the south-eastern end of Géologie Archipelago.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dumont d’Urville Station.
Dumont d’Urville Station
Hamlet
Photo: Ehquionest, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Dumont d'Urville Station is a French scientific station in Antarctica on Île des Pétrels, archipelago of Pointe-Géologie in Adélie Land. It is named after explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, whose expedition landed on Débarquement Rock in the Dumoulin Islands at the northeast end of the archipelago on January 21, 1840.
Gouverneur Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
Discover Gouverneur Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Gouverneur Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Gouverneur”
- Chinese: “古弗努爾島”
- Dutch: “Gouverneur-eiland”
- French: “île du Gouverneur”
- French: “Île du Gouverneur”
- German: “Gouverneur-Insel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gouverneur Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Île du Gouverneur”
- Swedish: “Gouverneur (ö)”
- Swedish: “Gouverneur Island”
Localities in the Area
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