Gerlache Island
| Gerlache Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 35 ′ S , 64 ° 14 ′ W | |
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The Gerlache Island is an island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the largest of the Rosenthal Islands and is located immediately west of the Anvers Island .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot falsely mapped it as the headland of Anvers Island, which Charcot then called Pointe de Gerlache after the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery (1866–1934) named. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey cleared up this mistake in the course of survey work between 1956 and 1958, which prompted the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee to correct the toponym on July 7, 1959 .
Web links
- Gerlache Island in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
- Gerlache Island on geographic.org (English)