Monge Island
Monge Island is a small rocky island off the coast of Antarctica, lying immediately south of La Conchée and 0.9 kilometres northeast of Cape Mousse. It was charted in 1951 by the French Antarctic Expedition and named after French mathematician Gaspard Monge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: small rocky island off the coast of Antarctica
- Also known as: “Île Monge” and “Monge, 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 5 km southwest of Monge Island.
Monge Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Monge Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Monge”
- Chinese: “蒙日島”
- Dutch: “Monge Island”
- Dutch: “Monge”
- German: “Île Monge”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Île Monge”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Monge Island”
- Swedish: “Monge”
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Highlights include La Conchée and Pascal Island.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Monge Island”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.