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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Yalour Islands (GBR) | 65° 15' 00.0" S | 64° 10' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 112019
Place ID: 16337
on E side of Penola Strait, Graham Coast, E of Argentine Islands, were roughly surveyed by FAE, 1903-05, in 1904 and named IÁles Jallour [sic] after Tte de Fragata (later Capt.) Jorge Yalour (also spelt Jalour), of the Argentine Navy, Second-in-Command of the sloop-of-war Uruguay (Uruguay Cove, q.v.) which, in 1904-05, was used to search for evidence of the safety and progress of FAE; Delegate of the Instituto Geogra fico Argentino on the Uruguay relief expedition for SwAE in 1903; in command for relief of Laurie Island, 1907-08 (Charcot, 1906b, p.474; 1912, Pl.3). IÁle Jallour [sic], referring to the largest island (Gourdon, 1908, end map). Jallour [sic] Islets (Charcot, [1911b], p.61; BA, 1916, p.406; 1948, p.204). Jallous [sic] Islets (St. Johnston, 1920, p.97). Jallour [sic] Islands (Holtedahl, 1929, p.24; USHO, 1943, p.142). IÁlots Jallour [sic], IÁlots Jalour (France. SHM, 1937, p.407). Jallour [sic] Isles (USHO, 1943, p.141). Isla Yalour, referring to the largest island (Argentina. IGM map, 1946). Islotes Yalour (Argentina. MM chart 107, 1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.731). Jalour Islets (APC, 1955, p.12; BA, 1958, p.89). Yalour Islets (USBGN, 1956, p.331). The islands were photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and resurveyed by FIDS-RN in 1958. Jalour Islands (APC, 1959a, p.8; BA chart 3572, 12.viii.1960; 29.xi.1974). Yalour Islands (DOS 610 sheet W 65 64, 1959; APC, 1960, p.8; USBGN, 1964, p.18; BA, 1977, p.6; chart 3573, 20.iv.1984). Islote [sic] Yalour, in error (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.307). South Island, referring to one of the central islands (Croxall and Kirkwood, 1979, Map 4.1.1). |
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| Yalour Islands (USA) | 65° 14' 00.0" S | 64° 10' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 133910
Place ID: 16337
Group of islands and rocks 1.5 mi in extent in the S part of the Wilhelm Archipelago. The group lies 1 mi NW of Cape Tuxen, Graham Land. Discovered and named by the FrAE, 1903-05, under J.B. Charcot. Named for Lt. Jorge Yalour, Argentine Navy, an officer of the Argentine corvette Uruguay which came to the rescue of the shipwrecked SwedAE in Nov. 1903. |
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| Yalour, islotes (ARG) | 65° 15' 00.0" S | 64° 10' 00.0" W | Island |
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| Yalour, Islotes (CHL) | 65° 14' 00.0" S | 64° 09' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 106499
Place ID: 16337
Descubierto por la Expedición Francesa, que se desarrolló entre los años 1903-1905, bajo la dirección del Dr. Jean B. Charcot, quien la denominó con este nombre por el teniente Jorge Yalour, de la Armada Argentina, oficial de la corbeta "Uruguay", quien vino a rescatar a los náufragos de la Expedición Sueca en noviembre del año 1903. Grupo de islotes y rocas de 1,5 milla de extensión en el centro del estrecho Penola a 1 milla al NW del Tuxen en la costa W de la península Tierra de O'Higgins. En verano quedan libres de nieve, presenta una coloración rojiza. |
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