Gouverneur Island is a low rocky island west-southwest of
Petrel Island and east of
Cape Géodésie Cape Géodésie () is a low, ice-covered point marked by prominent rock outcrops at its northeast end, lying northwest of the mouth of Astrolabe Glacier
Astrolabe Glacier is a glacier wide and long, flowing north-northeast from the continental ...
in the southern part of the
Géologie Archipelago
The Géologie Archipelago, also known as the Pointe Géologie Archipelago, Geology Archipelago or Cape Geology Archipelago, is a small archipelago of rocky islands and rocks close to the north of Cape Géodésie and Astrolabe Glacier Tongue, exte ...
, Antarctica. It was photographed from the air by
Operation Highjump
Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...
, 1946–47, and was charted and named by the French Antarctic Expedition under
André F. Liotard, 1949–51. Liotard was the first man to encamp on the island and, as leader of the Expedition, also held the honorary post of governor.
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See also
* List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
References
Islands of Adélie Land
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