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Davis Island (Palmer Archipelago)

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Location
  
Antarctica

Population
  
Uninhabited

Length
  
3.7 km (2.3 mi)

Island group
  
Palmer Archipelago

Davis Island (Palmer Archipelago)

Davis Island is an island about 3.7 km (2 nmi) long, situated in a position which blocks much of the channel between Brabant Island and Liège Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It is separated from Liège Island on the north by Zlogosh Passage, and from Albena Peninsula, Brabant Island on the south by Sumer Passage.

Map of Davis Island, Antarctica

The island was photographed and roughly charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99. The naming, by J.B. Charcot, leader of the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, honors Walter G. Davis, director of the Argentine government meteorological office at the time of the French exploration.

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Davis Island (Palmer Archipelago) Wikipedia