Renaud Island is an ice-covered

island An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...

in the

Biscoe Islands Mendez-Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud Island, Renaud, Lavoisier Island, Lavoisier (named ''Serrano'' by Chile and ''Mitre'' by Argentina), Watkins Island, Watkins, Krogh Island, Krogh, Pickwick Islan ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...

, long and from (average ) wide, lying between the

Pitt Islands The Pitt Islands are a group of small islands lying immediately off the north extremity of Renaud Island, at the north end of the Biscoe Islands. The name "Pitt's Island," after William Pitt the Younger, the British prime minister, was applied by ...

and

Rabot Island Rabot Island is an island long and wide, lying south of Renaud Island in the Biscoe Islands. First charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who named it for Charles Rabot. Originally discovered by Jo ...

. It is separated from the Pitt Islands to the northeast by Mraka Sound, and from

Lavoisier Island Lavoisier Island is an island long and wide, lying between Rabot and Watkins Islands in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It is separated from Renaud Island and Rabot Island to the northeast by Pendleton Strait, from Watkins Island to the sou ...

to the southwest by

Pendleton Strait Pendleton Strait () is a strait between Rabot and Lavoisier Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. The French Antarctic Expedition, in accordance with Charcot's conception of this water feature, applied the name Pendleton Bay in January 1909. The British ...

History

The Biscoe Islands were discovered in 1832 by a British expedition under

John Biscoe John Biscoe (28 April 1794 – 1843) was an English mariner and explorer who commanded the first expedition known to have sighted the areas named Enderby Land and Graham Land along the coast of Antarctica. The expedition also found a number of is ...

and were first roughly surveyed by the

French Antarctic Expedition The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica. 1837–1840 In 1837, during an 1837–1840 expedition across the deep southern hemisphere, Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville sailed his ship ''Astrolabe'' alo ...

under

Jean-Baptiste Charcot Jean-Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot, better known in France as Commandant Charcot, (15 July 1867 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris – 16 September 1936 at sea (30 miles north-west of Reykjavik, Iceland), was a French scientist, medical doctor ...

, 1903–05 and 1908–10. It was on this second expedition that Renaud Island was first charted and named. Renaud Island was again roughly surveyed in 1935–36 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE). A number of the island's geographical features have been individually charted and named. The majority, except where noted below, were first accurately charted on an Argentine government chart of 1957, and named by the

United Kingdom 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) and ...

(UK-APC) during the 1950s.

Geography

Weaver Point forms the northernmost end of the island. It was named for American professor of geography John C. Weaver. to the east is Tula Point, the island's northeast extremity. Alino Island lies 1 km south-southeast of Tula Point. The point was named for the '' Tula'', one of the two vessels from Biscoe's expedition. Zubov Bay is a

bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a ''gulf'', ''sea'', ''sound'', or ''bight''. A ''cove'' is a small, ci ...

2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide, indenting the east side of Renaud Island. It was named for Soviet

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Nikolay Nikolaevich Zubov Nikolay Nikolaevich Zubov () was a Russian naval officer, engineer, geographer, oceanographer and polar explorer. In 1901, Zubov joined the Sea Cadet Corps and in 1904, participated in the Russo-Japanese War. He was severely wounded in the Battle ...

. Jurva Point is the extremity of a small

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forming the southeast end of the island. It was named for Risto Jurva, a Finnish pioneer in

sea ice Sea ice arises as seawater freezes. Because ice is less density, dense than water, it floats on the ocean's surface (as does fresh water ice). Sea ice covers about 7% of the Earth's surface and about 12% of the world's oceans. Much of the world' ...

studies. Lively Point forms the southern extremity of Renaud Island. The point was named for the cutter ''Lively'', Biscoe's other vessel.

Armstrong Reef Armstrong Reef is a reef that encompasses many ice-free plutonic islets and rocks, extending for from the south-west end of Renaud Island, in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica. It was first accurately shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957 ...

extends for from the south-west end of Renaud Island. Malmgren Bay indents the west side of the island, immediately north of

Speerschneider Point Speerschneider Point () is a point on Belogushev Island forming the west side of the entrance to Malmgren Bay on the west side of Renaud Island, in the Biscoe Islands. First accurately shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the ...

on nearby

Belogushev Island Belogushev Island (, ) is the mostly ice-covered island off the west coast of Renaud Island in Biscoe Islands, Antarctica extending 1.3 km in southeast-northwest direction and 850 m in southwest-northeast direction, and ending in Speersch ...

. It was named for Swedish meteorologist

Finn Malmgren Finn Adolf Erik Johan Malmgren (9 January 1895 – ) was a Swedish meteorologist and Arctic explorer. Biography Malmgren studied in Gothenburg, Sundsvall, and Stockholm. In 1912, he began his studies at Uppsala University where he receiv ...

. Maurstad Point lies midway along the west side of the island, north-northeast of Speerschneider Point. It was named for Norwegian geographer Alf Maurstad. Kusunoki Point is on the northwest coast of the island. It was mapped from air photos by

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, 1956–57, and was 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 ...

for

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, a Japanese sea ice specialist.

References

Islands of the Biscoe Islands {{Biscoes-geo-stub

History

Geography

See also

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