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A view of Port Charcot, a wide bay north of Booth Island, a Y-shaped island that forms the western side of Lemaire Channel in the Antarctic Peninsula. Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who led the 1903-05 French Antarctic Expedition, built several scientific and living quarters here, as well as the cairn still visible at the top of the little peak (seen in the upper part of this picture) on the western side of the bay. The Gentoo Penguins seen in the foreground are the third-largest species of penguin after the Emperor Penguin and the King penguin.
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