Pourquoi Pas Island
| Pourquoi Pas Island | |
 Pourquoi Pas Island from Horseshoe Island | |
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| Location: | 67°40’59"S, 67°30’0"W |
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Pourquoi Pas Island is a mountainous island, 17 miles long and from five to eleven miles wide, lying intheh north-east corner of Marguerite Bay on the Fallières Coast between Bigourdan Fjord and Bourgeois Fjord off the west coast of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory.
Pourquoi Pas is separated from Blaiklock Island by a channel known as the Narrows
Discovery and surveys
The island was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot of 1908-10, but not recognized as an island.
In 1936 the island was charted more accurately by the British Graham Land Expedition of 1934–37, under John Rymill, who named it for Charcot's expedition ship, a three-masted schooner named the Pourquoi-Pas?. The island was re-surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Stonington Island in 1948-49.
See also
- Quilp Rock an isolated rock a mile and a half off the north-west side of Pourquoi Pas Island
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Pourquoi Pas Island