COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

off W coast of Trinity Island (q.v.), Palmer Archipelago, was known to nineteenth-century sealers; charted by SwAE in 1902 and called Île Duse after Lieut. S.A. Duse (Duse Bay, q.v.) (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904c, map p.232-33). Cape Charles (q.v.), in error (Wilson, chart, 1917). Farewell Rock (q.v.), in error (USAAF chart 1737, 1946). Isla Despedida [=farewell island], in error (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.312; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.100). Roca Farewell, in error (Argentina. MM chart ZZ, 1948). Roca Despedida, in error (Argentina. MM chart OO, 1954). Following air photography by FIDASE in 1956 and in association with Trinity Island, the feature was named Spert Island after Sir Thomas Spert (d. 1541), Controller of the King's Ships in the time of Henry VIII; Founder and first Master of the Mariners of England, which became the Corporation of Trinity House in 1514 (APC, 1960, p.7; BA chart 3560, 7.iv.1961).

Island lying off the W extremity of Trinity Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Charted by the SwedAE under Nordenskjold, 1901-04. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Sir Thomas Spert, Controller of the King's Ships in the time of Henry VIII, founder and first Master of the Mariners of England, which later became the Corporation of Trinity House.