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Bryde Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Bryde Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
W side of Paradise Harbour, Danco Coast, was roughly charted by BeAE on 10-11 February 1898 and named Île Bryde, probably after Ingvald Bryde (b. 1860), Norwegian agent who arranged the purchase of the expedition ship Belgica (ex-Patria) (Lecointe, map, 1899; SRGA, 1900, p.8; Gerlache, 1902b, p.43, 278). Bryde Island (Cook, 1900, map p.xx; BA chart 3205, 1.vi.1901; APC, 1955, p.6; BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959). Île de Bryde (Lecointe, 1904, p.156). Brydes Insel (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol. 2, first end map). Brydes Ön (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904a, Del. 1, end map). Isla Bryde (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904-05, Tomo 1, end map; Pierrou, 1970, p.220; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.58). Bryde Insel (Nordenskjöld, 1917, map facing p.68). Corrections to the chart of the island were made by BAE, 1920-22, from information supplied by whalers. Bride Island, McBride Island (Lester, 1920-22a, Vol. 3, p.93). Bryde Ö (HA chart, 1928). Brydes Ö (Aagaard, 1930, end map). The island was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57. Bruce Island (q.v.), in error (USAF chart 1762, 1959).
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