Lagrange Island
Lagrange Island is a small rocky island 0.7 kilometres northeast of Newton Island and 3 kilometres north of Cape Mousse, Adélie Coast, Antarctica. It was charted in 1951 by the French Antarctic Expedition and named after Joseph-Louis Lagrange, the French mathematician.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island off Antarctica
- Also known as: “Lagrange, Ile”
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 Lagrange Island.
Lagrange Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Lagrange Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lagrange”
- Chinese: “拉格朗日島”
- Dutch: “Lagrange Island”
- German: “Île Lagrange”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Île Lagrange”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lagrange Island”
- Swedish: “Île Lagrange”
- Swedish: “Lagrange (ö)”
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