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Argentine Islands
The
Argentine Islands
are a group of islands southwest of
Petermann Island
and northwest of
Cape Tuxen
, in the
Wilhelm Archipelago
off the
Antarctic Peninsula
. They were discovered by the
French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05
, under
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
, and named by him for the
Argentine Republic
in appreciation of that government's support of to his expedition.
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