It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named by him for the wife of Édouard Lockroy, Vice President of the French Chamber of Deputies who assisted Charcot in obtaining government support for the expedition.
During his tenure of the portfolio of commerce and industry he made the preliminary arrangements for the Exposition of 1889, and in a witty letter he defended the erection of the Eiffel Tower against artistic Paris.
Édouard Manet | Édouard Vuillard | Édouard Daladier | Jules Edouard Roiné | Édouard-Louis Pacaud | Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay | Édouard Lalo | Édouard Detaille | Édouard Stephan | Edouard Roditi | Édouard Michelin | Édouard Lucas | Édouard Lock | Édouard Lartet | Edouard Lanteri | Édouard Frère | Édouard Cortès | Édouard Carmignac | Édouard Balladur | Edouard A. Stackpole | Ange Edouard Poungui | Portrait of Louis de Bussy d'Amboise by Édouard Pingret | Pierre Édouard Blondin | ''Le Tennis'', huile sur toile d'Édouard Vuillard, 1907 | Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet | Isidore-Édouard-Candide Masson | George-Édouard Desbarats | Edouard Verreaux | Edouard Vermeulen | Édouard Roditi |