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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Rabot Island (RUS) | 65° 57' 00.0" S | 66° 00' 00.0" W | Island |
| Name ID: 120141 Place ID: 11805 | |||
| Rabot Island (GBR) | 65° 54' 00.0" S | 65° 59' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 110773
Place ID: 11805
one of the Biscoe Islands (q.v.), separated from S Renaud Island by Rodman Passage, was roughly charted by FAE, 1903-05, and named IÎle Rabot after Charles Rabot (1856-1944), French geographer and glaciologist, and Editor of La Géographie, of the Geographical Society of Paris, who assisted FAE, 1903-05, and who was Secretary of the Comité de Patronage and a member of the Commission des Traveaux Scientifiques of FAE, 1908-10, and who represented the Ministre de l'Instruction Publique at the reception for that expedition on its return to France (Charcot, 1906a, map facing p.316; 1906b, p.477; [referring collectively to the present feature and Renaud Island] Bongrain, 1914, vue 26 following p.60). Rabot Island (BA chart 1238, ix.1908; [in 65°43'S 66°09'W] 3196, 12.xi.1948; [in 65°52'S 66°10'W] APC, 1955, p.17; [co-ordinates corrected] DOS 610 sheet W6564, 1959; APC, 1977, p.27). Rabot Öya (HA chart, 1927). IÎle Rabut [sic] (France. SHM, 1937, p.408). Isla Rabot (Rymill and others, 1943, map facing p.96; Pierrou, 1970, p.615; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.237). Rabotöen (Aagaard, 1930, end map). Rabot Islands [sic] (USAF chart (AP-38), 1947). Isla Claudio Gay, so called after the French author of Historia general de Chile (Orrego Vicuña, 1948, p.201 and end map). The island was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. "Refugio Guillochón", probably after a member of the expedition to refer to the refuge hut established near the SW end of the island by AAE, 24 February 1957 (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.3). Rabot Eiland (Knapp, 1958, p.583). Isola Raboc [sic] (Zavatti, 1958, Tav. 9). Ostrov Rabo (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24). |
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| Rabot Island (USA) | 65° 54' 00.0" S | 65° 59' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 130501
Place ID: 11805
Island 5 mi long and 2 mi wide, lying 1 mi S of Renaud Island in the Biscoe Islands. First charted by the FrAE, 1903-05, under Charcot, who named it for Charles Rabot. |
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| Rabot, isla (ARG) | 65° 54' 00.0" S | 65° 59' 00.0" W | Island |
| Name ID: 101943 Place ID: 11805 | |||
| Rabot, Isla (CHL) | 65° 54' 00.0" S | 65° 59' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 106138
Place ID: 11805
La isla Rabot fue cartografiada primero por la Expedición Francesa de 1903-1905, bajo la dirección del Dr. Jean B. Charcot, recibe su denominación en honor a Charles Rabot. Isla de aproximadamente 12 millas de largo por 12 de millas de ancho, situada a más o menos 1 milla al SW de isla Renard en las islas Biscoe. La isla está cubierta por un manto parejo de hielo, por lo que su cima es plana. Sus costas formadas por acantilados de hielo son inaccesibles. Alcanza una altura de 100 mts. |
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