Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Lemaire Island

(Paradise Harbour)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 64° 48' 34" S 62° 57' 16" W
forming N side of Paradise Harbour, Danco Coast, was roughly charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 10-11 February 1898, and named IÎle Lemaire, after Capt. C. Lemaire (Lemaire Channel, q.v.). The island was further charted by BAE, 1920-22. The island was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Danco Island', 1956-58.