COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

on SW side of French Passage, Wilhelm Archipelago, Graham Coast, E of Cruls Islands (q.v.) and including Locator Island, were roughly charted by FAE, 1903-05, and 1908-10, and named IÎles Roca after Gen. J.A. Roca (Cape Roca, q.v.) (Charcot, 1906b, p.476; Matha and Rey, 1911, Pl.2 following p.615). IÎle Roca (Charcot, 1906a, map facing p.316). The name of Roca was also applied incorrectly to Anagram Islands (q.v.). The islands were partly recharted by BGLE but did not appear as a distinct group of islands (Rymill and others, 1938, map facing p.86). Rocca [sic] Islands, referring collectively to Anagram Islands and the present feature (USHO, 1943, p.141). Islotes Roca (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.290; Pierrou, 1970, p.628; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.244). Islas Quintana, Islotes Quintana (Quintana Island, q.v.), referring collectively to Cruls Islands and the present feature (Argentina. MM chart 107, 1949; 1956, p.100). The islands were recharted by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit from John Biscoe, with the help of air photography from HMS Protector's helicopter, in March 1958. Roca Islands (APC, 1959a, p.10; BA chart 3572, 12.viii.1960). Roca (Rocca) (USHO, 1961, p.173). Islas Rocca [sic], as rejected form (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.244).

Group of small islands between Cruls Islands and Anagram Islands on the S side of French Passage in the Wilhelm Archipelago. Discovered by the FrAE, 1903-05, and named by Charcot for Julio A. Roca, President of Argentina, 1880-86 and 1898-1904. The name was incorrectly applied to the Anagram Islands by the BGLE, 1934-37, but was reidentified with this group after further mapping by the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1958.

Descubierto por la Expedición Francesa, que se efectuó entre 1903-1905, al mando del Dr. Jean B. Charcot, denominada así en recuerdo de Julio A. Roca, Presidente de Argentina en los años 1880-1886 y 1898-1904. Grupo de islotes a más o menos 4 millas NW de islas Argentine, en la costa W de la península Tierra de O'Higgins.