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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Bob Island (GBR) 64° 57' 00.0" S 63° 27' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 107851 Place ID: 1499

off S end of Wiencke Island, Danco Coast, was photographed and roughly mapped by BeAE on 9 February 1898; called Îlot Famine, because a landing party with short supplies was delayed here in its re-embarkation (Gerlache, 1900b, p.476); later named Îlot Bob (Lecointe, chart, 1899; Gerlache, 1900b). Bab [sic] Island (Cook, 1900, map p.xx). Île Famine (Lecointe, 1900a, p.34). Bob Islet (Arçtowski, 1901b, p.372; APC, 1958, p.4; BA chart 3572, 25.vii.1958). Isola Bob, Isolotto della Carestia (Famine), Isolotto della Fame (Gerlache, 1902a). Île Bob (Lecointe, 1903, Carte 5). Bob Island (Marr, 1935, p.379; APC, 1959a, p.4; BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959). During partial resurvey of the area by FIDS from "Port Lockroy" in 1944, the island was not found in the position indicated by Lecointe. Isla Bob (Argentina. MM 1953, p.270c; Pierrou, 1970, p.207; Argentina. AA, 1991, p. 7). Isla Bailey (Argentina. MM chart , 1954), Isla Bayley (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1954), after an officer of AAE. The island was resurveyed and identified with BeAE's original discovery by FIDS from Norsel in April 1955, when a landing was made. Duck Island (Bancroft, 1959, Fig. 11, facing p.102). Isla Poisson, after Capt. (C) Maurice Poisson Eatsman, a member of a moving detachment on CAE from 1947 (Poisson Hill, q.v.) (Chile. DNH chart 1501, 1962; IHA, 1974, p.229). Bob Islet (Island) (USHO, 1963, p.159). Isla Poison [sic] (Chile. IGM map 9, 1966).

Bob Island (USA) 64° 56' 00.0" S 63° 26' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 122659 Place ID: 1499

Rocky island 1 mi long and 145 m high, lying 4 mi SE of Cape Errera, Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. An island in this vicinity was surveyed and photographed by the BelgAE under Gerlache in 1898. It was originally called "Ile Famine," but in the reports resulting from the expedition it was renamed "Ile Bob." In a survey of the area in 1955, the FIDS made a landing on this island. Although it differs somewhat in size and position from the BelgAE reports, the FIDS found it closely resembles the BelgAE photograph and consider it to be the island originally named.

Bob, Ile (BEL) 64° 56' 00.0" S 63° 26' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 104894 Place ID: 1499

Bob surnom de Robert Frederic, neveu d'Adrien de Gerlache.

Bob, isla (ARG) 64° 56' 00.0" S 63° 26' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 100296 Place ID: 1499

Church Mountain (AUS) 68° 02' 26.0" S 66° 05' 39.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 1499 Place ID: 7602

A peak about 863 m high, about 22 km south of Mt. Marsden in Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Kjerka (The Church). The feature was the terminal station in a tellurometer traverse from Mawson by John Manning in 1967.

Poisson, Isla (CHL) 64° 56' 00.0" S 63° 26' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 106109 Place ID: 1499

El nombre fue puesto en el año 1962 por el Instituto Hidrográfico de la Armada de Chile por el capitán de corbeta Maurice Poisson Eastman, de destacada participación de varias expediciones antárticas desde 1947. Isla situada a 4,5 millas al ESE de cabo Errera, extremo SW de isla Wiencke, archipiélago de Palmer.

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