The Bayard Islands () are a small group of islands lying northeast of

Cape Willems Flandres Bay () is a large bay lying between Cape Renard and Cape Willems, along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Location Flandres Bay is at the west end of the Danco Coast on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is southwes ...

, off the west coast of

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...

. They were charted by the

Belgian Antarctic Expedition The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. Led by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery aboard the RV ''Belgica'', it was the first Belgian Antarctic expedition and is considered the fir ...

under

Gerlache Baron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery (; 2 August 1866 – 4 December 1934) was a Belgian officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99. Early years Born in Hasselt in eastern Belgium as ...

, 1897–99, and named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...

in 1960 for

Hippolyte Bayard Hippolyte Bayard (; 20 January 1801 – 14 May 1887) was a French photographer and pioneer in the history of photography. He invented his own process that produced direct positive paper prints in the camera and presented the world's first public ...

, a French civil servant who, in 1839, independently invented a photographic process for obtaining direct positives on paper.

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* Islands of Graham Land Danco Coast {{DancoCoast-geo-stub

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