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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Discovery, isla (ARG) 64° 30' 00.0" S 63° 00' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 100706 Place ID: 5765

Guépratte Island (GBR) 64° 30' 00.0" S 63° 00' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 109134 Place ID: 5765

forming E entrance point of Fournier Bay, NE Anvers Island, was roughly charted by GAE, 1873-74 (Friederichsen, 1895, map facing p.304); recharted by FAE, 1903-05, in January 1905 and named IÎle Guépratte after Capt. de Vaisseau (later Contre-Am.) Émile-Paul-Aimable Guépratte (1856-1939), of the French Navy (Charcot, 1906b, p.470; Matha and Rey, 1911, Pl.3); further charted by DI in 1927 and, in apparent ignorance of previous naming, renamed Discovery Island after Discovery and in association with Discovery Sound (q.v.) on its S side (BA chart 3213, 14.i.1929; 1948, p.192). Discovery Island (Guépratte Island) (USHO, 1943, p.128). Isla Descubrimiento [translation of English name] (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947). Isla Discovery (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.316). IÎle Discovery (France. SHM chart 5452, 1951). Guépratte Island (BA chart 3213, 1952; APC, 1955, p.11; BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959). The island was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956. Isla Guépratte (Chile. DNH chart 1501, 1962; IHA, 1974, p.144). Isla Cuepratte [sic] (Chile. IGM map9, 1966).

Guépratte Island (USA) 64° 30' 00.0" S 63° 00' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 126009 Place ID: 5765

Ice-covered island 1.5 mi long, lying between Anvers and Brabant Islands at the E side of the entrance to Fournier Bay, Palmer Archipelago. This island was first shown on the Friederichsen map of 1895, embodying the 1873-74 explorations of a German expedition under Dallmann. It was later charted by the FrAE, 1903-05, under Charcot, who named it after Captain Guepratte, French Navy. The name Discovery Island, applied in 1927 by DI personnel on the Discovery, has been rejected in favor of the earlier name.

Guepratte, Isla (CHL) 64° 30' 00.0" S 63° 00' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 105640 Place ID: 5765

Esta isla se mostró por primera vez en el mapa Friederichsen de 1895, que da cuenta de las exploraciones de 1873-1874 de una Expedición Alemana al mando del comandante Eduard Dallmann. Más tarde fue cartografiada por la Expedición Antártica Francesa de 1903-1905, al mando del Dr. Jean B. Charcot, quien le dio el nombre del capitán Guepratte, de la Armada Francesa. En 1927, el personal del Discovery, ignorando el nombre original, le aplicó el nombre de isla Discovery. Isla de 1,5 milla de largo, situada entre las islas Anvers y Brabante, en el lado E de la entrada a bahía Fournier, en el archipiélago de Palmer. La isla está completamente cubierta de nieve y sus costas están constituidas por acantilados de hielo de 50 metros de alto su costa oriental es sucia, y avanzan en esta misma dirección islotes y rocas hasta la distancia de 10 cables en su parte central.

Guépratte, isla (ARG) 64° 30' 00.0" S 63° 00' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 101078 Place ID: 5765

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