Henkes Islands
| Henkes Islands | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| archipelago | Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 48 ′ S , 68 ° 56 ′ W | |
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The Henkes Islands ( French Îlots Henkes ) are a group of islands off the west coast of the West Antarctic Graham Land . They comprise several small islands and reef rocks and extend 1.5 km southwest of Avian Island and immediately south of Adelaide Island over a length of 3 km.
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered it. Charcot named it after the Dutch native Augustus Henkes (1874-1954), one of the directors of the whaling company Compañía Ballenera Magallanes in Punta Arenas , who assisted the research trip. Charcot applied the name to all scattered reef rocks and islands between Cape Adriasola and Cape Alexandra . Today the naming is limited to the extent determined by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee , based on mappings by the British Antarctic Survey of 1961 and the Royal Navy's hydrographic surveying unit in 1963.
Web links
- Henkes Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Henkes Islands on geographic.org (English)