Renaud Island


Renaud Island is an ice-covered island, long and from wide, lying between the Pitt Islands and Rabot Island in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica. It is separated from Pitt Islands to the northeast by Mraka Sound, and from Lavoisier Island to the southwest by Pendleton Strait. Zubov Bay is a 2.5 mile bay that indents the east side of the island.

Discovery

The island was first charted and named by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot.