Bryde Island () is an island long and wide, lying immediately southwest of

Lemaire Island Lemaire Island () is an island long and wide, lying west of Duthiers Point off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Location Lemaire Island is off the Danco Coast on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is near the southern ...

, 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 ...

, Antarctica.

Location

Bryde Island is off the

Danco Coast The Danco Coast () is the portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard. This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache, who named it ...

on the west side of the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. ...

. It is near the southern end of the

Gerlache Strait Gerlache Strait or de Gerlache Strait or Détroit de la Belgica is a Channel (geography), channel/strait separating the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula. The Belgian Antarctic Expedition, under Lt. Adrien de Gerlache, explored the ...

, opposite

Wiencke Island Wiencke Island is an island long and from wide, about in area, the southernmost of the major islands of the Palmer Archipelago, lying between Anvers Island to its north across the Neumayer Channel and the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsu ...

to the west.

is to the north,

Paradise Harbour Paradise Harbour () is a wide embayment behind Lemaire Island and Bryde Island, indenting the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, between Duthiers Point and Leniz Point. The name was first applied by whalers operating in the vicinity and wa ...

to the east and southeast, and

Kershaw Peaks The Kershaw Peaks () are a group of five main peaks, the highest at , standing west of the mouth of Miethe Glacier on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. They were shown on an Argentine government chart of 1952, and were named by the UK Ant ...

on the mainland to the south.

Description

The ''Sailing Directions for Antarctica'' (1976) describes Bryde Island as follows:

Discovery and name

Bryde Island was discovered 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 ...

(BelgAE) under

Adrien de 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 t ...

, 1897–99, and named for Ingvald Bryde, Norwegian agent who arranged the purchase of the expedition ship ''Belgica''.

Features

San Eladio Point

. The northwest point of Bryde Island. Charted by the

Argentine Antarctic Expedition Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...

, 1949-50, and named "Punta San Eladio" or "Cabo San Eladio" after a staff officer on the expedition ship ''Chiriguano''. An English form of the name has been approved.

Alvaro Cove

. A cove on the north side of Bryde Island. The feature was surveyed by the Argentine Antarctic Expedition, 1950-51, and named after a staff officer with the relief ship of the expedition.

Killermet Cove

. The southernmost of two coves indenting the west side of Bryde Island, off the west coast of Graham Land. The cove appears on an Argentine government chart of 1950. So 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 ...

(UK-APC) in 1960 because three members of the

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies The Falkland Islands Dependencies was the constitutional arrangement from 1843 until 1985 for administering the v ...

(FIDS) were chased into this cove in their dinghies by six

killer whale The orca (''Orcinus orca''), or killer whale, is a toothed whale and the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family. The only extant species in the genus '' Orcinus'', it is recognizable by its black-and-white-patterned body. A cosmopolit ...

s while circumnavigating Bryde Island in May 1957.

Rudolphy Point

. The southwest point of Bryde Island. Named "Punta Rudolphy" by the

Chilean Antarctic Expedition The First Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1947–1948) was an expedition to Antarctica mounted by the Chilean government and military to enforce its territorial claims against British challenges, namely Operation Tabarin. Among other accomplishmen ...

, 1950-51, after Captain Raul Rudolphy of the Chilean Navy, commander of the expedition transport ship ''Angamos''.

Nearby features

Argentino Channel

. Channel between Bryde Island and the west coast of Graham Land, connecting

Paradise Harbor Paradise Harbour () is a wide embayment behind Lemaire Island and Bryde Island (Antarctica), Bryde Island, indenting the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, between Duthiers Point and Leniz Point. The name was first applied by whalers operati ...

with

. First roughly charted by the BelgAE, 1897-99. The name "Canal Argentino" appears for the feature on an Argentine government chart of 1950.

Bruce Island

. An island lying off the southwest corner of Bryde Island in Gerlache Strait. Discovered and mapped by the BelgAE, 1897-99, under Lieutenant Adrien de Gerlache. The name was first used by Scottish geologist David Ferguson, who made a geological reconnaissance in this vicinity from the whalecatcher Hanka in 1913.

Boutan Rocks

. Small group of rocks lying southwest of Bruce Island. The rocks appear on an Argentine government chart of 1954. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for

Louis Boutan Louis Marie-Auguste Boutan (6 March 1859 – 6 April 1934) was a French biologist and photographer. He was a pioneer in the field of underwater photography. Biography The son of , he was born in Versailles and studied biology and natural h ...

(1859-1934), French naturalist and pioneer of submarine photography, 1893-98.

References

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