Bryde Island (Antarctica)

Bryde Island

Geography
Location	Gerlache Strait, Graham Land, Antarctica
Coordinates

Bryde Island () is an island 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) long and 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) wide, lying immediately southwest of Lemaire Island, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.

Location

Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula. Bryde Island to the west

Bryde Island is off the Danco Coast on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is near the southern end of the Gerlache Strait, opposite Wiencke Island to the west. Lemaire Island is to the north, Paradise Harbour to the east and southeast, and Kershaw Peaks on the mainland to the south.

Description

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

Discovery and name

Bryde Island was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE) under Adrien de Gerlache, 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, 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 (UK-APC) in 1960 because three members of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) were chased into this cove in their dinghies by six killer whales while circumnavigating Bryde Island in May 1957.

Rudolphy Point

. The southwest point of Bryde Island. Named "Punta Rudolphy" by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 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 with Gerlache Strait. 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 0.5 nautical miles (0.93 km; 0.58 mi) 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 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) southwest of Bruce Island. The rocks appear on an Argentine government chart of 1954. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Louis Boutan (1859-1934), French naturalist and pioneer of submarine photography, 1893-98.

Sources

• Alberts, Fred G., ed. (1995), Geographic Names of the Antarctic (PDF) (2 ed.), United States Board on Geographic Names, retrieved 3 December 2023  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the .
• Graham Land and South Shetland Islands, BAS: British Antarctic Survey, 2005, retrieved 3 May 2024{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
• Sailing Directions for Antarctica: Includes Islands South of Latitude 60.̊, United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Hydrographic Center, 1976, retrieved 30 May 2024