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Adelaide Island (landform)
Adelaide Island, an ice-covered island off the west Antarctic Peninsula at about 67°15'S, 68°30'W, was named by John Biscoe in 1832 after Queen Adelaide and hosts the UK's Rothera Research Station.
Amiot Islands
Amiot Islands: islet group with Cumbers Reef and Ward Islands off SW Adelaide Island, Antarctic Peninsula; charted by Charcot's FrAE 1908-10, named for A. Amiot of Montevideo; also Îles Amiot, Islas Amiot, Amiot Reef.
Beethoven Peninsula
Beethoven Peninsula is the ice-covered south-west part of Alexander Island, Antarctica, also called Peninsula Carvajal by Chile; a ~10,000 km2 plateau with Quaternary volcanic outcrops named after Beethoven.
Brooklyn Island
Brooklyn Island, Antarctica: 5-km-long island in eastern Wilhelmina Bay off Graham Land, 2 km south of Nansen Island; discovered and named 1897-1899 by de Gerlache's Belgian Antarctic Expedition for Brooklyn, NY, home of surgeon Frederick A. Cook.
Bryde Island
Bryde Island, an 11 km by 6 km Antarctic island off the Danco Coast, Graham Land, west of Paradise Harbour at 64°52'S 63°02'W; charted and named Île Bryde by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in February 1898.
Bugge Islands
Bugge Islands (Ruth Bugge Islands) are a small group of three ice-covered Antarctic islands, Ramírez, Aldea, and Landrum, off the Wordie Ice Shelf, Fallières Coast; photographed 1936 by the BGLE and named 1947 by Finn Ronne for his niece Ruth Bugge.
Centre Island
Centre Island is an island in Square Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula, discovered and named by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1934–37.
Delaite Island
Delaite Island (Delaire Ile, Isla Delaite) is an island in Wilhelmina Bay, Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, west of Nansen Island at 64°34'S 62°12'W, charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named for sponsor Julien Delaite.
Dorsey Island
Dorsey Island (Spanish: Dorsey, Isla) is an ice-covered Antarctic island at about 70°22'S, 71°30'W in the Wilkins Ice Shelf region near Alexander Island, notable for a rare 2-by-2-km sea lake at its northeast end.
Eklund Islands
Eklund Islands, a group of mainly ice-covered islands near the southwest end of George VI Sound, Antarctica (73°16'S, 71°45'W), discovered December 1940 by Finn Ronne and Carl R. Eklund and named for Eklund, ornithologist of the U.S. Antarctic Service.
Emma Island
Emma Island (Emma, Ile) is a small Antarctic island east of Cape Anna in Wilhelmina Bay, Danco Coast, Graham Land, at 64°36'S 62°18'W. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named for Emma de Gerlache de Gomery, mother of commander Adrien de Gerlache.
Farwell Island
Farwell Island names two places: an ice-covered island and ice rise at 72°49'S 91°10'W in the Abbot Ice Shelf, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica, and a 1 m elevation islet in Calhoun County, Texas, near Pass Cavallo and Espiritu Santo Bay.
Gaston Islands
Gaston Islands: two islands and rocks 2 km NW of Reclus Peninsula tip, Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, at 64°29'S 61°50'W. Charted 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, named for Gaston de Gerlache; group name adopted by the UK in 1960.
Horseshoe Island
Horseshoe Island (Isla Herradura) is a small rocky Antarctic island in Marguerite Bay, Fallières Coast, named by Rymill's BGLE in 1936-37 for its crescent shape; it hosted FIDS Base Y (1955-1960), now Historic Site and Monument No. 63, and Farrier Col became ASPA 181 in 2024.
Hugo Island
Hugo Island, also called Victor Hugo Island (Russian) or Isla Víctor Hugo (Spanish, Chilean), is an ice-covered Antarctic island 1 mi long at 64°57'S, 65°45'W off the west Antarctic Peninsula, named by Charcot for Victor Hugo.
Kirkwood Islands
Kirkwood Islands (Kirkwood, Islotes), a scattered group of reefs and rocks with one larger islet in central Marguerite Bay, Antarctica, at 68°22'S 69°00'W; sighted 1949 and surveyed 1950 from the FIDS ship John Biscoe, named for Cdr. Henry Kirkwood, RN.
Lagotellerie Island
Lagotellerie Island, Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula; ASPA 115 (formerly SPA 19), 1.58 km2 island protected for its Antarctic flowering plants, Adélie penguin and Imperial Shag colonies, and rich invertebrate fauna.
Latady Island
Latady Island: ice-covered Antarctic island in the Bellingshausen Sea at 70°45′S 74°35′W, west of Alexander Island, about 80 km south of Charcot Island; covered by BAS 2025 regional maps.
Lemaire Island
Lemaire Island (Le Maire, isla; Lemaire, Isla) is an Antarctic island 4.5 mi long off the west coast of Graham Land, forming the north side of Paradise Harbour; discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897-99 and named for Charles Lemaire.
Liard Island
Liard Island (Isla Liard) is a mountainous Antarctic island, 24 km long and 11 km wide, rising to 1,000 m in north-central Hanusse Bay off Graham Land's west coast, discovered and named by Charcot's French Antarctic Expedition of 1908-10.
Louise Island
Louise Island (Antarctica), also Île Louise or Isla Luisa, is a 1 km ice-covered island 2 km east of Cape Anna at the entrance to Wilhelmina Bay, Danco Coast, Graham Land, discovered and named by Adrien de Gerlache's 1897-99 Belgian expedition for his sister.
Moureaux Islands
Moureaux Islands (Îles Moureaux): two islands and off-lying rocks 2.5 miles WNW of Pelletan Point in Flandres Bay, west Graham Land, Antarctica, at 65°05'S 63°08'W; charted and named by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, landing February 1898.
Nansen Island
Nansen Island (Isla Nansen Sur) is the largest island in Wilhelmina Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, at 64°35'S 62°05'W. Discovered and named Île Nansen by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache (1897-99) for Fridtjof Nansen; distinct from the Nansen Island in Franz Josef Land, Russia.
Pelseneer Island
Pelseneer Island, also known as Pic Luigi de Savoie, is a small ice-covered island in Wilhelmina Bay off Graham Land, discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99.
Pourquoi Pas Island
Pourquoi Pas Island, an uninhabited mountainous Antarctic island in Marguerite Bay, Graham Land, between Bigourdan and Bourgeois Fjords; discovered by Charcot 1908-10, named by Rymill's BGLE for Charcot's ship Pourquoi-Pas?; highest peak Mount Verne 1,633 m.
Puffball Islands
Puffball Islands, also recorded as Puffball, Islotes (Chile) and Bejin, islotes (Argentina), are scattered ice-covered islets and rocks in southern Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula, named by the FIDS in 1948 after nearby Mushroom Island.
Rongé Island
Rongé Island (De Rongé, Ile) is a rugged 5-mile Antarctic island at 64°43'S, 62°41'W, largest on the west side of Errera Channel, Graham Land; discovered 1897–99 by de Gerlache's Belgian expedition, named for Madame de Ronge; gentoo and chinstrap penguin colonies.
Rothschild Island (landform)
Rothschild Island, Antarctica: 39-km ice-covered island with Desko Mountains peaks, 8 km west of Alexander Island; sighted 1821, named 1909 by Charcot for Baron Édouard de Rothschild.
Spaatz Island
Spaatz Island, also rendered Спаатс (Russian) and Spaatzøya (Norwegian), is an ice-covered Antarctic island at 73°12'S 75°00'W on the English Coast, named for General Carl Spaatz and forming the eastern boundary of Stange Ice Shelf.
Wyck Island
Wyck Island is a small Antarctic island at 64°39'S 62°05'W, near Brooklyn Island in Wilhelmina Bay off Graham Land, discovered by the 1897-99 Belgian expedition under Gerlache; also recorded as Van Wyck Island.