Hervé Island ( bg, остров Ерве, ostrov Hervé, ) is the mostly ice-covered rocky island in the
Barcroft group of
Biscoe Islands
Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud, Lavoisier (named ''Serrano'' by Chile and ''Mitre'' by Argentina), Watkins, Krogh, Pickwick and Rabot, lying parallel to the west coast of Graham Land and extending ...
in
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...
900 m long in south-southwest to north-northeast direction and 290 m wide. Its surface area is 14.16 ha.
The feature is named after the
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
an geologist
Francisco Hervé Allamand, for his contribution to Antarctic geology and the Bulgarian Antarctic programme.
Location
Hervé Island is centred at ,
[Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.]
Antarctic Place-names Commission which is 260 m south of
Kuno Point on
Watkins Island
Watkins Island is a low lying, ice-covered island long, lying southwest of Lavoisier Island in the Biscoe Islands. The island was first mapped by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1903–05 and 1908–10, but remai ...
, 1.53 km northwest of
St. Brigid Island and 1.1 km southeast of
Belding Island.
Maps
British Antarctic Territory.Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 66. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1976
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated
See also
*
List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
Notes
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic datain English)
External links
Hervé Island.Adjusted Copernix satellite image
Islands of the Biscoe Islands
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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