Rasmussen Island () is a small
island in the north part of
Waddington Bay
Waddington Bay is an Antarctic bay long, in a NW-SE direction, and wide, indenting the west coast of Kyiv Peninsula, Graham Land, immediately north of Cape Tuxen. This bay is partially defined on the charts of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, ...
, on the west coast of
Graham Land. The north entrance to Waddington Bay was named "
Cap Rasmussen" by the
Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache, but air photos show no significant point there which can be reidentified without ambiguity. To preserve the original name in the vicinity, the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 applied the name Rasmussen to this island.
See also
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List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
Islands of Graham Land
Graham Coast
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