Pourquoi Pas () is an

ice Ice is water frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 degrees Celsius or Depending on the presence of impurities such as particles of soil or bubbles of air, it can appear transparent or a more or less opaqu ...

-covered point which forms the west side of the entrance to

Victor Bay Victor Bay () is a bay about wide and long, indenting the coast between Pourquoi Pas Point and Mathieu Rock, Antarctica. The bay is marked by an extensive chain of icebergs breaking away from the high tongue of Commandant Charcot Glacier. It ...

. It was charted by the

French Antarctic Expedition 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 fabl ...

, 1950–52, and named in 1954 after the French polar ship Pourquoi-Pas ?. (English translation: Why Not?)

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Headlands of Adélie Land {{AdélieLand-geo-stub