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Koechlin Island

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Location
  
Antarctica

Population
  
Uninhabited

Koechlin Island

Koechlin Island is an island off the northeast coast of Adelaide Island, Antarctica, about 8 kilometres (4.5 nmi) south of the Sillard Islands. It was mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–48) and the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–57). The island was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Swiss glaciologist René Koechlin, author of Les glaciers et leur mechanisme, 1944.

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Koechlin Island Wikipedia