Joinville Island

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Iceland Joinville (French Île Joinville ) is the largest of Joinville Islands. Located off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by the Antarctic Sound, it is in the east-west direction about 64 kilometers long and 20 kilometers wide. You case has an area of ​​1607 km ². The island was discovered in 1838 by a French expedition under Dumont d' Urville Jules, roughly mapped and after François Ferdinand Philippe Louis Marie, Prince de Joinville ( 1818-1900 ), the third son of the Duc d' Orléans, Louis-Philippe of France named.

The highest mountain on the island is Mount Tholus, with a height of 825 meters, according to other sources even 1112 meters. 10.5 km north of it is Mount Percy, who is consistently 765 feet high by two sources and is referred to in the former mistakenly as the highest mountain of Joinville Iceland.

In the southwest of the island brooded in 2008 approximately 10,000 pairs of Adelie penguins and more than 670 pairs of gentoo penguins. The breeding colony is recognized by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ( Ant037 ).

In Joinville Iceland is the same name operated by Brazil automatic weather station.