🌴 Mikkelsen Islands

Antarctica · Antarctica · 67.63°S, 68.16°W

The Mikkelsen Islands are a small group of islands and rocks lying off the southeast coast of Adelaide Island, 4 kilometres (2 nmi) southeast of the Léonie Islands. They were discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot in 1908–10 and named by him for Otto Mikkelsen, the Norwegian diver who inspected the damaged hull of the Pourquoi-Pas at Deception Island.

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Country	Antarctica
Continent / region	Antarctica
Coordinates (approx.)	67.63°S, 68.16°W · view on map

Mikkelsen Islands is located in Antarctica, in Antarctica.

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