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Melchior Islands 
Geography Location Antarctica Coordinates 64°19′S 62°57′W / 64.317°S 62.95°W Archipelago Palmer Archipelago Major islands Bremen Island Country Demographics Population 0 Additional information Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System Melchior Islands (64°19′S 62°57′W / 64.317°S 62.95°W) is a group of many low, ice-covered islands lying near the center of Dallmann Bay in the Palmer Archipelago. First seen but left unnamed by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann, 1873-74. Resighted and roughly charted by the 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 Melchior of the French Navy, but later surveys proved Charcot's Île Melchior to be two islands, now called Eta Island and Omega Island. The name Melchior Islands has since become established for the whole island group now described, of which Eta Island and Omega Island form the eastern part, while Sigma Islands mark the north limit of the islands. The group was roughly surveyed in 1927 by DI personnel in the RRS Discovery, and was resurveyed by Argentine expeditions in 1942 and 1943, and again in 1948.
See also
- Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
- List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
- SCAR
- Territorial claims in Antarctica
- Bremen Island
- Delta Island
- Lambda Island
- Pabellon Island
- Psi Islands
- Tripod Island
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