COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

one of the Wauwermans Islands, Bismarck Strait, was roughly charted by AAE and called Isla Alberto (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1954); later called Isla Sinclair after Capt. (N) Henry Sinclair (1805-1904), born in New York, who served many years in the Argentine Navy (Argentina. MM chart 130, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.661). The island was recharted by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit from HMS Protector, 1956-57; named Chaucer Island after Geoffrey Chaucer (?1340-1400), English poet and author of Canterbury tales, in association with the names of characters from this work in the area (APC, 1959a, p.5; BA chart 3572, 12.viii.1960). Sinclair Island (USBGN, 1965, p.105).

Island over 1 mi long, lying 1.5 mi NE of Reeve Island in the Wauwermans Islands, in the Wilhelm Archipelago. First mapped by the Argentines in 1950. The toponym replaces the provisional name "Alberto" and was approved by the Geographic Coordinating Committee (Argentina) in 1956. It memorializes Argentine naval hero Captain Enrique Sinclair (1805-1904). Born in New York, U.S.A., he emigrated while very young to the Rio de la Plata, joined the Argentine navy and fought at the side of Admiral Brown in the war with Brazil.