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Duclaux Point (64°4′S 62°15′W / 64.067°S 62.250°W / -64.067; -62.250) is a point extending into Bouquet Bay from the east side of Pasteur Peninsula, 3 nautical miles (6 km) southeast of Cape Cockburn on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago. First charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903-05, and named by Charcot for Pierre E. Duclaux, French biochemist, director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris (1895).

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