Rabot Island

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Rabot Island

Biscoe Islands
(British Antarctic Territory)

Location

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Location: 65°54’12"S, 65°57’17"W
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Rabot Island is one of the Biscoe Islands, which lie off the coast of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory. The island is a mile south of Renaud Island, separated from it by the Rodman Passage.

This island was roughly charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903-05, and named IÎle Rabot after Charles Rabot (1856-1944), French geographer and glaciologist, and Editor of La Géographie of the Geographical Society of Paris: Rabot assisted the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903-05, and who was Secretary of the Comité de Patronage and a member of the Commission des Traveaux Scientifiques of the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, and represented the Ministre de l'Instruction Publique at the reception for that expedition on its return to France.

The island was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57.

Outside links

  • Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Rabot Island