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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.
Liège Island
Liège Island (Ile Liège, Isla Lieja): island 9 mi long, 3 mi wide in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, immediately NE of Brabant Island at 64°02'S 61°55'W; charted and named for Belgium's Liège province by the Belgica expedition 1897-99 under de Gerlache.
Lindenberg Island
Lindenberg Island (Lindenbergzuckerhut) is a small circular volcanic island rising 200 m above the Larsen Ice Shelf off the Nordenskjöld Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, discovered and named by Carl Anton Larsen on 11 December 1893 for C. Lindenberg of Hamburg.
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.
Melchior Islands
Melchior Islands: low, ice-covered islands in Dallmann Bay, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctic Peninsula, named by Charcot 1903-05 after Admiral Melchior; site of Argentina's 1947 Base Melchior and the 1942 Primero de Mayo lighthouse.
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.
Ohlin Island
Ohlin Island, also called Bailys Island, is a 170 m high uninhabited island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, about 11 km west of Tower Island, discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901–04 and named by Nordenskjöld for zoologist Axel Ohlin.
Paulet Island
Paulet Island (Isla Paulet) is a small circular volcanic island in the northwestern Weddell Sea off the Antarctic Peninsula, known for its large Adélie penguin colony.
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.
Petermann Island
Petermann Island is an Antarctic island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Antarctic Peninsula, discovered by Eduard Dallmann in 1874 and known for its gentoo penguin colony.
Pitt Islands
Pitt Islands (Islas Avellaneda) are a small island group at the north end of the Biscoe Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, at 65°26′S 65°30′W. Named by John Biscoe in 1832 for William Pitt; charted by Rymill's BGLE in 1935-36; home to the Jinks Island Complex and Gentoo penguins.
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.
Pullen Island
Pullen Island: ice-covered Antarctic island in Violante Inlet, Black Coast, Palmer Land, on the landward side of Larsen Ice Shelf; named for William A. Pullen, USN; distinct from Islote Pullen, Chile.
Quijada, isla
Isla Quijada (Quijada, isla) is an Antarctic island or ice rise in the Ronne Ice Shelf between Berkner Island and Korff Ice Rise, named by Argentina after Vicealmirante Hermes Quijada; also called Henry Ice Rise, at about 80°35'S 62°W.
Rabot Island
Rabot Island (Isla Rabot) is an Antarctic island in the Biscoe Islands, 8 km long and 3 km wide, 1.6 km south of Renaud Island off Graham Land, charted and named for Charles Rabot by Charcot's 1903–05 expedition.
Renaud Island
Renaud Island (Isla Renaud, Île Renaud), largest island of the Biscoe Islands off the west Antarctic Peninsula; ice-covered, 511 km², discovered by Biscoe in 1832, named by Charcot's French expedition after hydrographer M.-J.-A. Renaud.
Robertson Island
Robertson Island: ice-covered Antarctic island, 13 mi long and 6 mi wide, at the east end of the Seal Nunataks off the Antarctic Peninsula; discovered by C.A. Larsen in 1893 and named for William Robertson of Hamburg.
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.
Rosamel Island
Rosamel Island (Isla Rosamel), also called Christmas Island, is a 435 m Antarctic island in the southeast entrance of Antarctic Sound between Andersson and Dundee islands, charted by d'Urville's expedition in 1838 and named for Baron de Rosamel.
Rosenthal Islands
Rosenthal Islands, group of about 80 small islands off west Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica; charted by Dallmann 1873/74, named for Albert Rosenthal; Restricted Zone in ASMA 7 with penguin colonies.
Ross, Islas
Ross, Islas, also searched as the Ross islands group or James Ross Island, is an archipelago in the Weddell Sea northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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.
Snow Hill Island
Snow Hill Island (Isla Cerro Nevado) is an ice-covered island in the James Ross Archipelago, Weddell Sea, at 64°28'S 57°11'W, site of Nordenskjöld's 1902-03 winter station hut and the northernmost emperor penguin colony.
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.
Stanley Island
Stanley Island (Antarctica): an island off Heros Peninsula on the Foyn Coast, western Cabinet Inlet, Antarctic Peninsula; 3.2 km long, 520 m high, at 66°31′54″S 63°40′24″W, distinct from Stanley Islands in Australia, Canada, and Chile.
Tail Island
Tail Island (Cola, isla) is a circular Antarctic island, 1.25 mi across and 130 m high, in NE Prince Gustav Channel, Trinity Peninsula, midway between Egg and Eagle Islands; charted by FIDS in 1945 and named for its position among Eagle, Beak, and Egg Islands.
Tonkin Island
Tonkin Island is a narrow, ice-capped island in Antarctica, rising to about 520 m above the Larsen Ice Shelf east of Cape Church on the Bowman Coast of Graham Land.
Tower Island
Tower Island (Isla Torre) is an uninhabited Antarctic island, 9 km long and 305 m high, marking the northeast end of the Palmer Archipelago; named by Edward Bransfield on 30 January 1820.