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Buffon Islands
1 nmi) east of Petrel Island in the Géologie Archipelago. They were charted in 1951 by the French Antarctic Expedition and named by them for Georges Buffon, a noted French naturalist.
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Overview
The Buffon Islands are a group of three adjoining, rocky islands, together about 0.5 kilometres (0.25 nmi) in extent, lying 0.2 kilometres (0.1 nmi) east of Petrel Island in the Géologie Archipelago. They were charted in 1951 by the French Antarctic Expedition and named by them for Georges Buffon, a noted French naturalist.
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Census, cataloged
- Major islands2
- Minor islands0
- Islets7
- Rocks & skerries0
Major islands
2
Île des Pétrels
- Area
- 0.33 km²
- High point
- 38 m
Unnamed island
- Area
- 0.13 km²
Islets
7
- Unnamed island22 m · 0.07 km²
- Unnamed island31 m · 0.06 km²
- Île Claude Bernard46 m · 0.05 km²
- Unnamed island16 m · 0.02 km²
- Le Sagittaire13 m · 0.01 km²
- Îlot des Hydrographes4 m · 0.6 ha
- Ilot du Marégraphe0.3 ha
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Comparative heights
- Île Claude Bernard: 46 m
- Île des Pétrels: 38 m
- Le Sagittaire: 13 m
- Îlot des Hydrographes: 4 m
To the same scale
Islands by area
km², log scale
| Île des Pétrels | 0.33 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.13 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.07 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.06 km² |
| Île Claude Bernard | 0.05 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.02 km² |
| Le Sagittaire | 0.01 km² |
| Îlot des Hydrographes | 0.6 ha |
| Ilot du Marégraphe | 0.3 ha |
Sources
Facts
Photographs
- Chasseneige. TESSIER Ewan / CC BY-SA 4.0