COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

Denominada por la Expedición Antártica Chilena, año 1947, en honor del capitán de fragata Gabriel Rojas Parker, comandante del transporte "Angamos". Situada entre la islas Fridtjof y Poisson, frente a la costa suroriental de isla Wiencke. Sus costas son acantiladas, presentan una altura de poco más de 100 mts.

off Pursuit Point, Wiencke Island, Palmer Archipelago, was not sighted when this area was charted by BeAE in February 1898 (Lecointe, 1903, Carte 5); charted by FAE, 1903-05 (Matha and Rey, 1911, Pl.3 following p.616). During survey of the area by FIDS from "Port Lockroy" in 1944, the island was not sighted and was not shown on DCS 9 sheet A, 1948, but was shown on BA chart 3196, 12.xi.1948. Isla Vázquez, Isla Vásquez [sic], so called by AAE possibly after a member of the crew of the Argentine corvette Uruguay, 1904-05 (Cabo Vázquez q.v.) (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.250b, 348). Following resurvey of the area by FIDS from Norsel in April 1955, when its existence was confirmed, the island was named Truant Islet because of the way in which it had appeared and disappeared on successive maps and charts (APC, 1958, p.7; BA chart 3572, 25.vii.1958). Truant Island (APC, 1959a, p.12; BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959). Isla Rojas Parker, after Capt. (F) G. Rojas Parker (Ensenada Rojas, q.v.) (Chile. DNH chart 1501, 1962; IHA, 1974, p.291). Vázquez Island (USBGN, 1965, p.107).

Island lying between Fridtjof and Bob Islands, off the SE side of Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago. First charted by the FrAE under Charcot, 1903-05. The name appears on an Argentine government chart of 1950.