• Source: Laplace Island (Antarctica)
  • Laplace Island is a small rocky island 0.6 kilometres (0.3 nmi) west-northwest of La Conchée and 1.4 kilometres (0.75 nmi) north of Cape Mousse, Antarctica. It was charted in 1951 by the French Antarctic Expedition and named by them for Pierre-Simon Laplace, the French astronomer and mathematician.


    See also


    List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
    Laplace Island (disambiguation)


    References



    This article incorporates public domain material from "Laplace Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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