Blaiklock Island is a high and rugged, irregular-shaped island long, lying between
Bigourdan Fjord and
Bourgeois Fjord. It is separated from
Pourquoi Pas Island
Pourquoi Pas Island is a mountainous island, long and from wide, lying between Bigourdan Fjord and Bourgeois Fjord off the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, 1908–10. The island w ...
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The Narrows
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The Narrows is the tidal strait separating the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It connects the Upper New York Bay and Lower New York Bay and forms the principal channel by which the Hudson Rive ...
and from 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 a ...
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Jones Channel
Jones Channel () is an ice-filled channel, long and wide, lying between Blaiklock Island and the south part of Arrowsmith Peninsula and connecting Bourgeois Fjord with the head of Bigourdan Fjord, off the west coast of Graham Land. It was occup ...
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[ The feature was partially surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill, at which time it was charted as a promontory. It was determined to be an island in 1949 by ]Kenneth V. Blaiklock
Kenneth Victor Blaiklock (6 December 1927 – 20 September 2020) was a British Antarctic surveyor who took part in Sir Vivian Fuchs's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition that completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica. During th ...
, a Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ...
(FIDS) surveyor for whom it is named.
Named features
Scree Cove is a cove
A cove is a small type of bay or coastal inlet. Coves usually have narrow, restricted entrances, are often circular or oval, and are often situated within a larger bay. Small, narrow, sheltered bays, inlets, creeks, or recesses in a coast are of ...
on the southwest side of the island. It was mapped by FIDS from surveys and air photos in 1948–59, and named for the very prominent scree or talus slopes along the southern shore of the cove.
Mount Kershaw sits on the northeast end of the island, above Kosiba Wall and the former Jones Ice Shelf.[
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Blaicklock Island Refuge
Blaicklock Island Refuge () is a British Antarctic Survey
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ...
refuge located on the island. The refuge was inaugurated on 6 March 1957 and remained active until 1958; it was utilized as refuge and advanced base for survey and geological research as well as satellite hut for personnel based at Station E, Station W and Station Y.
The refuge, on 19 May 1995, was designated as Historic Site or Monument (HSM 63) under the Antarctic Treaty System as well as Station Y. The site was cleaned up in 1997 and it is managed by United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust since 2014.[
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See also
* List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
* List of Antarctic field camps
References
Islands of Graham Land
Fallières Coast
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