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Hugo Island
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Hugo Island, 2011
Hugo Island is located in Antarctica
Hugo Island
Hugo Island
Location in Antarctica
Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location Antarctica
Coordinates 64°57′S 65°45′W / 64.950°S 65.750°W / -64.950; -65.750
Width 342,561,789,029 km (212,858,027,263.9 mi)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population Uninhabited

Hugo Island (or Víctor Hugo) is an isolated ice-covered island 2 kilometres (1 nmi) long, with several rocky islets and pinnacles off its east side, located off the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, about 74 kilometres (40 nmi) southwest of Cape Monaco, Anvers Island. It was probably discovered by C.J. Evensen, captain of the Peninsula in 1893, because an unnamed island of similar extent and location first appeared on the charts at that time. The island was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Dr. J.B. Charcot, who named it for the French poet and novelist Victor Hugo, grandfather of Charcot's first wife, whose maiden name was Jeanne Hugo.

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