COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

off NW Alexander Island forming W side of Lazarev Bay and bounded by Wilkins Ice Shelf to SE, was sighted by RAE at Mirnyy Peak (q.v.) in January 1821; roughly charted as an island by FAE, 1908-10, in January 1909 and named IÎle E. de Rothschild after Édouard Alphonse, Baron de Rothschild (1868-1949), head of the French branch of the Rothschild family and President, Rothschild Brothers Bank (Charcot, 1912, Pl. 1). IÎle E. de Rotschild [sic] (Bongrain, 1914, vue 43 following p.60). E. Rothschild Island (BA chart 3175, 9.x.1914). E. de Rotschild [sic] Island (BA, 1916, photograph facing p.409). E. Rothschild Öya (HA chart, 1927). The island was seen from the air by Wilkins, 29 December 1929. E. de Rothschild Island (Wilkins, 1929, map facing p.374; 1930, p.374). IÎle Rotschild [sic] (France. SHM, 1937, p.410). The island was seen again from the air by BGLE, 15 August 1936 and 1 February 1937, and reported to be part of Alexander Island; renamed Mount Rothschild (Rymill, 1938a, p.425; Stephenson, 1940, p.173 and map facing p.232). Cape Rothschild (USHO chart 5411, 1940). The feature was again

Island 24 mi long, mainly ice covered but surmounted by prominent peaks of Desko Mountains, 5 mi W of the N part of Alexander Island in the N entrance to Wilkins Sound. Sighted from a distance by the FrAE, 1908-10, and named by Charcot, after Edouard-Alphonse, Baron de Rothschild (1868-1949), head of the French branch of the Rothschild family and president of the Rothschild Brothers bank. In subsequent exploration by the BGLE, 1934-37, the feature was believed to be a mountain connected to Alexander Island, but its insularity was reaffirmed by the USAS, 1939-41, who photographed and roughly mapped the island from the air. Mapped in detail from air photos taken by the RARE, 1947-48, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960, and from U.S. satellite imagery taken in 1974.

Fue avistada y denominada por la Expedición Francesa 1908-1910, al mando del Dr. Jean B. Charcot. Al examinar fotos aéreas de esta isla tomadas del Servicio Antártico de los Estados Unidos de 1939-1941 se deduce que puede estar conectada, por una masa de tierra baja y cubierta de hielo, por su lado E a una cadena montañosa haciendo esta isla mucho mayor de 10 millas como se había representado anteriormente. Isla situada al W del extremo N de la isla Alejandro I a la entrada N al estrecho Wilkins.