 Location of Lavoisier Island | |
  Lavoisier Island Location in Antarctica | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Antarctica |
| Coordinates | 66°12′S66°44′W / 66.200°S 66.733°W /-66.200; -66.733 |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands |
| Length | 29 km (18 mi) |
| Width | 8 km (5 mi) |
| Administration | |
| Administered under theAntarctic Treaty System | |
Lavoisier Island is an island 29 km (18 mi) long and 8 km (5 mi) wide, lying betweenRabot andWatkins Islands in theBiscoe Islands,Antarctica. It is separated fromRenaud Island and Rabot Island to the northeast byPendleton Strait, from Watkins Island to the southwest byLewis Sound, and fromKrogh Island to the west-southwest byVladigerov Passage.
Lavoisier Island is namedIsla Serrano byChile andisla Mitre byArgentina.
The island was first charted by theFrench Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, underJean-Baptiste Charcot, and named "Ile Nansen" afterFridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer. To avoid confusion withNansen Island (q.v.) inWilhelmina Bay, the UK-APC recommended in 1960 that the island be renamed forAntoine Laurent Lavoisier, French chemist who pioneered the study ofmetabolism.
Winslow Rock is a rock close off the east side of Lavoisier Island,Biscoe Islands. Mapped from surveys byFalkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1958–59). There is a small penguin rookery on this rock, which provides the only known landing place on the east side of Lavoisier Island. Named byUnited Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) forCharles E.A. Winslow, American physiologist who has specialized in the reactions of the human body to cold environments.
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