Léonie Island is the largest and westernmost of the
Léonie Islands
The Léonie Islands are a group of small islands lying in the entrance to Ryder Bay along the southeast side of Adelaide Island, Antarctica. The French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, discovered these islands and ga ...
, in diameter and high, lying in the entrance to
Ryder Bay
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along the southeast side of
Adelaide Island
Adelaide Island is a large, mainly ice-covered island, long and wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Ginger Islands lie off the southern end. Mount Bodys is the easternmost mount ...
, Antarctica. It was discovered and named by the
French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10
The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica.
First expedition
In 1772, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec and the naturalist Jean Guillaume Bruguière sailed to the Antarctic region in search of the fab ...
, under
Jean-Baptiste Charcot.
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See also
* List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
References
Islands of Adelaide Island
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