The size, place, and neighbors of Pourquoi Pas Island
Roughly 27 km (17 miles) long and anywhere from 8 to 18 km (5 to 11 miles) wide, Pourquoi Pas Island is situated between Bourgeois Fjord and Bigourdan Fjord off western Graham Land, Antarctica.
Pourquoi Pas Island’s discovery, exploration, and namesake
Pourquoi Pas was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition of 1908 – 1910, led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot, then fully charted by the British Graham Land Expedition of 1934 – 1937, under Australian explorer John Rymill, who named Pourquoi Pas Island after Charcot’s ship, the (you guessed it) Pourquoi-Pas.
