Lavoisier Island

Lavoisier Island

Lavoisier Island is an island 18 miles long and 5 miles wide, lying between Rabot and Watkins Islands in the Biscoe Islands. It is named "Isla Serrano" by Chile and "isla Mitre" by Argentina.

First charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903-05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named "Ile Nansen" after Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer. To avoid confusion with Nansen Island (q.v.) in Wilhelmina Bay, the UK-APC recommended in 1960 that the island be renamed for Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, French chemist who pioneered the study of metabolism.


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