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Barbière Island
Barbière Island is located in Antarctica
Barbière Island
Barbière Island
Location in Antarctica
Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location Antarctica
Coordinates 65°11′S 64°10′W / 65.183°S 64.167°W / -65.183; -64.167
Archipelago Wilhelm Archipelago
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population Uninhabited

Barbière Island is a small island, the southeasternmost of the islands lying off the south end of Petermann Island, in the Wilhelm Archipelago. It was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, and named after M. Barbière, one of the port engineers at Recife, Pernambuco, who assisted the expedition in 1910.

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