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Mikkelsen Islands
The
Mikkelsen
Islands
are a small
group of islands
and
rocks
lying
off the
southeast
coast
of
Adelaide Island
, southeast of the
Léonie Islands
. They were
discovered
by the
French Antarctic Expedition
under
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
in 1908–10 and named by him for
Otto Mikkelsen
, the
Norwegian
diver
who inspected the
damaged
hull
of the
Pourquoi-Pas
at
Deception Island
.