Melchior Islands
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melchior-islands-283-2477988
title:
Melchior Islands
text:
The Melchior Islands are a group of many low, ice-covered islands lying near the center of Dallmann Bay in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. They were first seen but left unnamed by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann, 1873–74. The islands were resighted and roughly charted by the Third French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1903–05. Charcot named what he believed to be the large easternmost island in the group "Île Melchior" after Vice Admiral Jules Melchior of the Fre
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wiki
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Group of many islands in Antarctica
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Islands
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date modified:
2023-01-01T00:41:52Z
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13
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