Joinville Island is the largest island of the

Joinville Island group Joinville Island group is a group of antarctic islands, lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which Joinville Island group is separated by the Antarctic Sound. Joinville Island, located at , is the largest island of the ...

, about long in an east-west direction and wide, lying off the northeastern tip of the

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, from which it is separated by the

Antarctic Sound The Antarctic Sound is a body of water about long and from wide, separating the Joinville Island group from the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula. The sound was named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskjöld for the e ...

. Joinville Island was discovered and charted roughly during 1838 by a

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expedition commanded by Captain

Jules Dumont d'Urville Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (; 23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer, he gave his nam ...

, who named it for

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(1818–1900), the third son of Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans. It is within the

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and Chilean Antarctic claims.

Geography

Joinville Island consists of a series of valleys and bays, including

Suspiros Bay Suspiros Bay is a small bay indenting the west end of Joinville Island just south of Madder Cliffs. The name was proposed by Captain Emilio L. Diaz, commander of the Argentine Antarctic task force (1951–52). The toponym alludes to the difficult ...

and

Balaena Valley Balaena Valley () is a gently sloping valley, filled with ice, lying east of Suspiros Bay in the western part of Joinville Island. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1953–54. The ''Balaena'' (Alexander Fairweather, ...

References

{{reflist Islands of the Joinville Island group

Geography

See also

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