COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

Island 0.3 mi long lying 0.5 mi NW of Round Point, off the N coast of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for the sealing vessel Tartar (Capt. Pottinger) from London, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821-22.

New name for Tartar Island which became a part of mainland of King George Island, linked with Round Point (now obsolete) by a gravel peninsula.

NW of Round Point (q.v.), N King George Island, formerly an island (Tartar Island), was called in error Isla Owen (Owen Island, q.v.) (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Pierrou, 1970, p.569; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.218); following air photography by FIDASE in 1956 and in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named Tartar Island after the sealing ship Tartar (Capt. C. Pottinger, Pottinger Point, q.v.), which visited the South Shetland Islands, 1821-22 (APC, 1960, p.7; USOO chart 6943, 1963; DOS 610 sheet W 62 58, 1968); reported by PAE to have become joined to the main island by a gravel spit and called Tartar Peninsula, Tartar Point or Przyladek Tartaru (Birkenmajer, 1982c, p.186; 1984, map Fig. 7, p.170 and p.175). Renamed Tartar Point, APC 2008.