Lavoisier Island is an island long and wide, lying between
Rabot Rabot may refer to:
Geography
* Rabot, Tajikistan, a city in Tajikistan
*Rabot Island, island near Antarctica
* Rabot Glacier, glacier in Antarctica
* Rabot Point, a high rocky point in James Ross Island, Antarctica
People with the surname
*Charl ...
and
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 ...
s in the
Biscoe Islands,
Antarctica. It is separated from
Renaud Island
Renaud Island is an ice-covered island in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica, long and from (average ) wide, lying between the Pitt Islands and Rabot Island. It is separated from the Pitt Islands to the northeast by Mraka Sound, and from Lavoisi ...
and Rabot Island to the northeast by
Pendleton Strait
Pendleton Strait () is a strait between Rabot and Lavoisier Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. The French Antarctic Expedition
The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica.
First expedition
In 1772, Yves-Jos ...
, from Watkins Island to the southwest by
Lewis Sound
Lewis Sound () is a body of water running northwest–southeast between Lavoisier Island and Krogh Island to the northeast and Watkins Island to the southwest, in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica. It was mapped from aerial photographs taken by the ...
, and from
Krogh Island to the west-southwest by
Vladigerov Passage
Vladigerov Passage ( bg, Владигеров проток, ‘Vladigerov Protok’ \vla-di-'ge-rov 'pro-tok\) is the passage long 5.8 km in southwest-northeast direction and 1.05 km wide in Biscoe Islands, Antarctica between Lavoisier ...
.
Lavoisier Island is named ''Isla Serrano'' by
Chile and ''isla Mitre'' by
Argentina.
The island was first charted by the
French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under
Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named "Ile Nansen" after
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (; 10 October 186113 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat, and humanitarian. He led the team t ...
, Norwegian Arctic explorer. To avoid confusion with
Nansen Island
Nansen Island or Isla Nansen Sur is the largest of the islands lying in Wilhelmina Bay off the west coast of Graham Land, lying east of Emma Island, Antarctica, Emma Island. Nansen Island was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (18 ...
(q.v.) in
Wilhelmina Bay, the UK-APC recommended in 1960 that the island be renamed for