COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

W coast of Graham Land from Cape Bellue to head of Bourgeois Fjord, was roughly charted by FAE, 1903-05, and further charted by FAE 1908-10. The name Terre Loubet was applied to the mainland coast E of Adelaide Island, with N and S limits undefined, after Émile François Loubet (1839-1929), President of France, 1899-1906, and Patron of FAE, 1903-05, whose name was originally applied to Adelaide Island (q.v.) (Charcot, 1910, p.85-88 and map facing p.370). Loubet Land (Charcot, 1911a, map facing p.348). Loubet Coast ([with limits undefined] Shackleton, 1919, end map; BA, 1930, p.84; [with present definition] BA chart 3570, 5.i.1951; APC, 1955, p.14; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961). Loubet Kust (Shackleton, [1921], end map). Tierra de Loubet (Hoxmark, 1924). Loubet Küste (Drygalski, 1930, p.327). Loubetkysten (Aagaard, 1930, end map). The coast was further charted by BGLE in 1935-36. Loubert [sic] Coast (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942). Costa Loubet (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.189). Costa de Loubet (Chile. DNH chart LII, 1947). Tierra Loubet (Sgrosso, 1948, p.182). Loubet Island, presumably in error for this feature (James, 1949, p.56). The coast was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Costa Loube [sic] (Argentina. MM chart 110, 1957). Bereg Lube (Soviet Union. MMF chart 1961).

That portion of the W coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Bellue and the head of Bourgeois Fjord. This coast was explored in Jan. 1905 by FrAE under J.B. Charcot, who named it for Emile Loubet, then President of France.

Fue explorada en enero de 1905 por la Expedición Francesa del Dr. Jean B. Charcot, quien la denominó así por Emile Loubet entonces Presidente de Francia. Se conoce con este tramo de costa entre el cabo Bellue y el seno Bourgeois en la costa W de la península Tierra de O'Higgins.