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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| De Rongé, Ile (BEL) | 64° 43' 00.0" S | 62° 41' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 104922
Place ID: 12335
De Rongé, vice-président du Club africain, propagandiste de l'E.A.B. 1897-1899 sur le navire Belgica. |
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| De Ronge, Isla (CHL) | 64° 43' 00.0" S | 62° 41' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 105421
Place ID: 12335
Fue descubierta y cartografiada por la Expedición Antártica Belga de 1897-1899, al mando del teniente Adrien de Gerlache, quien le dio el nombre por Madame De Rongé, quien contribuyó a la expedición. En algunas cartas de 1947 se le aplicó erróneamente el nombre de isla Cuverville e isla Cuveiville. En otras cartas chilenas entre 1951 y 1957 se le llamó isla Ronge e isla De Ronge. Isla montañosa y maciza, que mide 5 millas de largo en sentido N-S por 2,5 de ancho medio y que alcanza una altura de 1.158 metros. Está situada frente a la península Arctowski y separada de esta por el canal Errera, frente a la costa occidental de la península Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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| De Rongé, isla (ARG) | 64° 43' 00.0" S | 62° 42' 00.0" W | Island |
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| Rongé Island (GBR) | 64° 43' 00.0" S | 62° 41' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 110928
Place ID: 12335
N of Beneden Head separated from Graham Coast by Errera Channel, was roughly charted by BeAE, 4-28 February 1898, and together with offlying islands named IÎles de Rongé after Mme de Rongé, a contributor to the expedition (Lecointe, map, 1899; 1900a, map facing p.132). Rouges [sic] Inseln, presumably in error (Stefan, 1900, map facing p.532). Rongé Islands (Cook, 1900, map p.xx). Cuverville Island (q.v.), in error (BA chart 3205, l.vi.1901; Herdman, 1932, chart 6). Isole di Rongé (Gerlache, 1902a). IÎle de Rongé (Lecointe, 1903, Carte 5; Charcot, 1906a, map facing p.316). Rongé-Insel (Cook, 1903, map following p.x). Rongé(')s Insel (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol. 2, first end map; Nordenskjöld, 1917, map facing p.68). Rongés Ön (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904a, Del. 1, end map). Rongé Island (Nordenskjöld and others, 1905, map facing p.316; BA chart 3213, 6.x.1950; APC, 1955, p.18; BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959). Cuverville Island (Rouge [sic] Island), in error (BA chart 3205, vii.1909). Cuiverville [sic] Island, in error (Ferguson, chart, 1918a). Couverville [sic] Island, in error (Ferguson, 1921, p.47). de Rongé Island (Lester, 1920-22a, Vol. 2, p.24; BA chart 3205, 1942). Cuverville Ö, in error (HA chart, 1928). De Rongé Island or Rouge Island or Cuverville Island (Bagshawe, 1939, p.35). Isla Cuverville, in error (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947). Rongé (Cuverville) Island (BA, 1948, p.194). Isla de Rongé (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.309; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.100). Rouge Island, as rejected name (USBGN, 1949, p.15). Isla Rongé (Chile. DNH chart 511, 1951). The island was resurveyed by FIDS from Norsel in 1955 and photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Isla Curville, Isla Cuveiville, as rejected names (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.100). |
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| Rongé Island (USA) | 64° 43' 00.0" S | 62° 41' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 130922
Place ID: 12335
High, rugged island 5 mi long, the largest island of the group which forms the W side of Errera Channel, off the W coast of Graham Land. Discovered by the BelgAE, 1897-99, under Gerlache, who named it for Madame de Ronge, a contributor to the expedition. |
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