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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Dufaure, islas (ARG) 64° 14' 00.0" S 63° 27' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 100748 Place ID: 8029

Lajarte Islands (GBR) 64° 14' 00.0" S 63° 27' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 109702 Place ID: 8029

off N coast of Anvers Island, extending N and W of Cape Grönland, were roughly charted by GAE, 1873-74; further charted by FAE, 1903-05 and named IÎles Dufaure de Lajarte after Capitaine de Vaisseau Louis-Henri Dufaure de Lajarte (b.1852), of the French Navy (Charcot, 1906a, map facing p.316; 1906b, p.471). Dufaure de Lajarte Islands (BA chart 3205, vii.1909; DCS 9 sheet A, 1948). les Dufour [sic] de Lajarte (Matha and Rey, 1911, Pl.2). Dufaure de Lajarte Öyane (HA chart, 1928). Grupo Avión V Sikorski, so called by CAE presumably after the Sikorski helicopter used on the expedition (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947). Islas Dufaure de Lajarte (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949). Lajarte Islands (USBGN, 1951, p.30; BA chart 3570, 27.vi.1952; APC, 1959a, p.8; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961). Islas Lajarte (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.267; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.175). Lajarte Islets (BA, 1954, p.48; APC, 1955, p.13; BA chart 3570, 21.ix.1957). The islands were photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956. Islas Dufaure (Argentina. MM chart 128, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.326). Ostrova Lazhart (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Grupo Avión V Sikorski 308, Grupo Avión V Sikorsky, Grupo Avión V Sikorsky 308, as rejected names (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.35, 175).

Lajarte Islands (USA) 64° 14' 00.0" S 63° 24' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 127727 Place ID: 8029

Group of islands fringing the N coast of Anvers Island, close W of Cape Gronland, in the Palmer Archipelago. Discovered by a German expedition under Dallmann, 1873-74. Charted by the FrAE, 1903-05, and named by Charcot for Capt. Dufaure de Lajarte, French Navy.

Lajarte, Islas (CHL) 64° 15' 00.0" S 63° 30' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 105794 Place ID: 8029

Descubiertas por la Expedición Alemana de 1873-1874, bajo la dirección de Eduard Dallmann. Cartografiadas por la Expedición Antártica Francesa de los años 1903-1905, al mando del Dr. Jean B. Charcot y denominadas por él en esta forma, en honor del capitán de la Armada Francesa Dufaure de Lajarte. Grupo de islas que bordea la costa N de isla Anvers, al NE de cabo Grönland, en el archipiélago de Palmer.

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