Located at the south end of the Lemaire Channel and near the Island Booth Island Pleneau is still linked to the French expedition led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot in 1903-1905, since it bears the name of the photographer of the expedition: Paul Pleneau.
The only inhabitants of this island are the gentoo penguins with about 500 pairs, but it is also common to see some sea elephants and fur seals. The main interest of the Island Pleneau lies especially in the fact that north is a graveyard of icebergs. It is indeed due to shallow waters, many of these giant ice lapping here to the delight of the eyes. And sometimes for the lucky, a whale surfaced, a Leopard Seal is playing near some boats and crabbers Seals basking on a piece of ice.
Pleneau remains for me to Neko Harbour , the two most beautiful sites on the Antarctic Peninsula.