Pourquoi Pas Point
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Pourquoi Pas is an ice
-covered point which forms the west side of the entrance to Victor Bay
. It was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition
, 1950-52, and named in 1954 after the French polar ship Pourquoi-Pas?
. (English translation: Why Not?)
Ice
Ice is water frozen into the solid state. Usually ice is the phase known as ice Ih, which is the most abundant of the varying solid phases on the Earth's surface. It can appear transparent or opaque bluish-white color, depending on the presence of impurities or air inclusions...
-covered point which forms the west side of the entrance to Victor Bay
Victor Bay
Victor Bay is a bay about 16 nautical miles wide and 7 nautical miles long, indenting the coast between Pourquoi Pas Point and Mathieu Rock, Antarctica. The bay is marked by an extensive chain of icebergs breaking away from the high tongue of Commandant Charcot Glacier. It was delineated from...
. It was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition
French Antarctic Expedition
French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French expeditions in Antarctica.-First expedition:Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was a French explorer....
, 1950-52, and named in 1954 after the French polar ship Pourquoi-Pas?
Pourquoi Pas ? IV
The Pourquoi Pas ? IV was the fourth ship built for Jean-Baptiste Charcot. She completed the second Charcot expedition of the Antarctic regions from 1908 to 1910. Charcot died aboard when she was wrecked on 16 September 1936...
. (English translation: Why Not?)