Lecointe Island
{{Short description|Island in Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica}}
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{{Infobox islands
| name = Lecointe Island
| image_name = Lecointe Island, Palmer Archipelago, BAT.svg
| image_caption = Location of Lecointe Island
| pushpin_map = Antarctic Peninsula#Antarctica
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Antarctica
| nickname =
| location = Antarctica
| coordinates = {{Coord|64|14|38.93|S|62|3|10.23|W|display=inline,title}}
| archipelago = Palmer Archipelago
| total_islands =
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| area_km2 =
| length_km = 7.27
| width_km = 2.2
| highest_mount =
| elevation_m = 700
| population = Uninhabited
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| country = None
| treaty_system = Antarctic Treaty System
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Lecointe Island is an elongated island, {{convert|7.27|km|mi|abbr=on}} long between Cape Kaiser and Hvarchil Point, {{convert|2.2|km|mi|abbr=on}} wide and {{convert|700|m|ft|-2|abbr=on}} high, separated from the east coast of Brabant Island by Pampa Passage, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.
The island was first roughly surveyed by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, which gave the name Cape Kaiser to its northern extremity. The island was surveyed and photographed by several British expeditions, 1955–58, and was named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey for Georges Lecointe, second-in-command and surveyor of the Belgian expedition which was responsible for the first survey of Gerlache Strait.
It is also known as Isla Kaiser and Isla Alice.
Gallery
File:Brabant-Island.png|Brabant Island seen from northeast, with the smaller Hoseason Island and Liège Islands in the foreground, and Anvers Island (on the right) and the Antarctic Peninsula in the background. Lecointe Island lies to the left of Brabant Island, separated by a narrow channel (the Pampa Passage) of water.
File:North-of-kayak-bay 20241226 101321360.jpg|Lecointe Island from the Pampa Passage between that island and Brabant Island.
File:North-of-kayak-bay 20241226 104125307.jpg|Lecointe Island from the Pampa Passage between that island and Brabant Island.
Maps
- [http://www.add.scar.org Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).] Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20141209160123/https://www1.data.antarctica.gov.au/aadc/mapcat/display_map.cfm?map_id=3217 British Antarctic Territory.] Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20170703122914/https://data.aad.gov.au/database/mapcat/british/brabant_argentine_is_BAS_map13489.jpg Brabant Island to Argentine Islands.] Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.
See also
References
External links
- [https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:8648 Lecointe Island] on USGS website
- [https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/search_names_action.cfm?search_text=8264&feature_type_code=0&country_id=0&relic_options=include_relics&north=-45.0&south=-90.0&west=-180.0&east=180.0&search_near=&radius=0.5&gazetteers=SCAR Lecointe Island] on SCAR website
- [https://geographic.org/geographic_names/antname.php?uni=8648&fid=antgeo_113 Lecointe Island area satellite image]
- [https://copernix.io/#?where=-62.16539031225585,-64.28402029082179,12&?query=&?map_type=hybrid Lecointe Island] Copernix satellite image
- [https://mapcarta.com/25619268 Lecointe Island area map]
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Category:Islands of the Palmer Archipelago
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