COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

off E end of Tabarin Peninsula, Trinity Peninsula, was roughly mapped from a distance by FAE, 1837-40, on 27 February 1838 and called (collectively with Jonassen Island) Île Rosamel (Rosamel Island, q.v.) (Vincendon-Dumoulin, atlas, 1847, Pl. 8); remapped by SwAE on 15 January 1902 and later named Île de l'Uruguay (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904c, map p.232-33), Uruguay-Insel (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol. 2, p.127), Uruguay Ön (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904a, Del.1, end map), Isla Uruguay (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904-05, Tomo 1, end map; Pierrou, 1970, p.702) or Uruguay Island (Nordenskjöld and others, 1905, p.46; BA chart 3205, 31.x.1921), after the Argentine sloop-of-war Uruguay (Capt. (F) J. Irïzar) which rescued the SwAE party from Snow Hill Island, 8 November 1903. Isla Argentina, Isla Uruguai (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map).Île Uruguay (Charcot, 1912, Pl.1). Rosamel Island or Christmas Island, referring collectively to this island and Jonassen Island (Lester, 1920-22a, Vol. 1, p.52). Uruguay Ö (HA chart, 1928). Following resurvey by FIDS from Hope Bay , 1945-47, to avoid confusion with Uruguay Island (q.v.), Graham Coast, referred to frequently in BA, BGLE and FIDS publications, and despite its undoubted priority of naming, the present feature was renamed Andersson Island, after Dr Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874-1960), Swedish geologist and Second-in-command, SwAE, who wintered at Hope Bay in 1903; Director, Swedish Geological Institute, from 1909 (BA chart 3205, 23.ix.1949; APC, 1955, p.4). Île Andersson (France. SHM, 1954, p.47). Anderson [sic] Island (USHO chart 6639, 1955). Isla Andersson (Chile. DNH chart 1400, 1961; IHA, 1974, p.27). Ostrov Anderson (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Isla Anderson (Chile. IGM map 5, 1966).

Island 7 mi long and 4 mi wide, lying 0.5 mi S of Jonassen Island at the W side of the S entrance to Antarctic Sound, off the NE tip of Antarctic Peninsula. This island was named Uruguay Island by the SwedAE, 1901-04, under Nordenskjold, after the Argentine ship Uruguay which participated in the rescue of the ship-wrecked SwedAE in 1903. In 1904, the FrAE under Charcot, apparently unaware of the Swedish naming, gave the name Uruguay to an island off the W coast of Antarctic Peninsula. Since it is confusing to have two islands in close proximity identically named, and because Charcot's Uruguay Island has appeared more widely on maps and in reports, the US-ACAN accepts the decision of the UK-APC that the name given this island by Nordenskjold be altered. The new name commemorates J. Gunnar Andersson, who was second-in-command of Nordenskjold's expedition.

La Expedición Antártica Sueca de 1901-1904, al mando del Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld, la llamó isla Uruguay, por el nombre del buque que tuvo participación en el rescate de esta expedición en 1903. En 1904, la Expedición Antártica Francesa, al mando del Dr. Jean B. Charcot, llamó Uruguay a otra isla de la costa W de la península Tierra de O'Higgins, aparentemente ignorando lo obrado por Nordenskjöld. Para evitar la confusión, se ha aceptado el cambio de nombre, recibiendo la primera el suyo por el apellido de J. Gunnar Andersson que fuera el segundo comandante de la Expedición de Nordenskjöld Mide aproximadamente 6 millas en dirección E-W por 4 millas en dirección a N-S y está ubicada directamente al E de la península Tabarín, de la cual la separa el paso Fridtjof, en la boca S del paso Antarctic, frente al extremo oriental de la península Luis Felipe, península Tierra de O'Higgins.