Chameau Island is a rocky island long, lying east of
Cape Découverte
Cape Découverte or Cape Discovery () is the point of rocks which marks the northwest extremity of the Curzon Islands along the Adélie Coast. It was discovered on 21 January 1840, by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jule ...
in the
Curzon Islands. It was charted and named in 1951 by the
French Antarctic Expedition. The name is suggestive of the island's form which resembles the two humps on a (bactrian)
camel
A camel (from: la, camelus and grc-gre, κάμηλος (''kamēlos'') from Hebrew or Phoenician: גָמָל ''gāmāl''.) is an even-toed ungulate in the genus ''Camelus'' that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. C ...
, "chameau" being a French word for camel.
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See also
* List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
References
Islands of Adélie Land
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