Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Wiencke Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Wiencke 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:
S-most of the larger islands in Palmer Archipelago, separated from Anvers Island by Neumayer Channel (q.v.) and from Danco Coast by Gerlache Strait, was circumnavigated and roughly charted by BeAE, 8-9 February 1898, and named Île Wiencke after August-Karl Wiencke (1877-98), a sailor in the expedition ship Belgica who was drowned, 22 January 1898 (Lecointe, map, 1899; 1900a, map facing p.132). Wiencke Island (BA chart 1238, viii.1900; 3196, 12.xi.1948; APC, 1955, p.22; BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959). Isola Wiencke (Gerlache, 1902a). Wienckeinsel (Cook, 1903 p.97). Wienckes Ön (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904a, Del. 1, end map). The island was further charted by FAE, 1903-05, in March 1904, when a landing was made. Isla Wienke [sic] (Jalour, [1907b], p.37). Wiericke [sic] Eiland (Easton, 1913, map facing p.278). Wiencke Öya (HA chart, 1927). Wiencke Ö (HA chart, 1928). Wiencke-Øen (Holtedahl and Mosby, 1928, p.229). Wiencke-Øya (Holtedahl, 1942, p.89). The island was partly surveyed by FIDS from "Port Lockroy" in 1944. Isla Wiencke (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Pierrou, 1970, p.726; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.301). Wiercke [sic] Island (James, 1949, p.[9]). The island was further surveyed by FIDS from "Arthur Harbour" and from Norsel in 1955, and photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956. Wiencko-Ön [sic] (Frödin, 1956, end map). Wiencke Eiland (Knapp, 1958, p.588). Weincke [sic] Island (USAF chart GNC 24, 1958). Anvers Island (q.v.), in error (USHO, 1960, p.362, 3rd view). Ostrov Vinke (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Wiencke (Hardy, 1967, p.404). Isla Wienkier [sic] (Johnson, 1972, p.89). [For details of occupation see Dorian Bay and Port Lockroy.]
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