Hugo Island
| Hugo Island | |
 Hugo Island, 2011 | |
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| Location: | 64°57’30"S, 65°43’17"W |
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Hugo Island is an isolated, ice-smothered island just 1 nautical mile long, with several rocky islets and pinnacles off its east side, lying off the west side of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory.
The island is the most outlying island on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, to the north of Biscoe Islands, about 40 nautical miles south-west of Cape Monaco, a headland of Anvers Island.
The island was probably discovered by C.J. Evensen, captain of the Hertha in 1893, because an unnamed island of similar extent and location first appeared on sealers' charts at that time. The island was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition of 1903–1905, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who named it for the French poet and novelist Victor Hugo, grandfather of Charcot's wife Jeanne, whose maiden name was Jeanne Hugo. (This did not stop Jeanne from divorcing him while he was away, for desertion.) The island was further charted on 13 January 1909, by the French Antarctic Expedition of 1908-1910, also under Charcot.
The island was recharted by a Roya Navy Hydrographic Survey Unit from HMS Protector in the 1966-1967 season.
See also
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Hugo Island