COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

The archipelago extends from the SW coast of Anvers Island over about 100 km to the NE coast of Renaud Island, between Biscoe Islands and Palmer Archipelago, W side of the Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered during German Antarctic Expedition 1873/74 under Captain Eduard Dallmann (1830-1896).

consists of all islands and rocks N and W of Graham Coast, S of Bismarck Strait and N of Southwind Passage, lying between Palmer Archipelago and Biscoe Islands, extending W to Lumus Rock and including from N to S Wauwermans Islands, Dannebrog Islands, Myriad Islands, Booth Island, Hovgaard Island, Vedel Islands, Petermann Island, Roca Islands, Cruls Islands, Anagram Islands, Argentine Islands, Jalour Islands, Betbeder Islands (q.v.) and offliers. The W islands of the archipelago were sighted by Bis- coe in February 1832 (Biscoe, 1830-33b; 1901, p.332). The archipelago was roughly charted by GAE, 1873-74, in January 1874 and named Kaiser Wilhelm Inseln after Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Emperor of Germany, 1888-1918 (Petermann, map, 1875b; Friederichsen, 1895, Tafel 7 facing p.304). Emperor William Islands (Markham, 1885, Pl. 2). Kaiser Wilhelm Islands (Larsen, 1894b; Bartholomew, map, 1898a). Île Empereur Guillaume (Lecointe, map, 1899). Emperor William Island [sic] (Cook, 1900, map p.xx). King William Archipelago, King William Islands (Arçtowski, 1901b, p.368). Îles du Kaiser Wilhelm (Charcot, 1906a, map facing p.316). Archipel des Îles Kaiser-Wilhelm (Charcot, 1910, p.47). Archipel du Kaiser Wilhelm (Matha and Rey, 1911, p.31). Keiser Wilhelm Öer, Kaiser Wilhelmgruppen, Keiser Wilhelmøene (Aagaard, 1930, end map; 1931). Kaiser Wilhelm II Islands (USHO, 1943, p.135). Keiser Wilhelmgruppen (Aagaard, 1947, p.963). The N islands in the archipelago were photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Keizer Wilhelm Eilanden (Knapp, 1958, p.577). Wilhelm Archipelago ([all islands N and W of Graham Coast, between Cape Renard and Cape Tuxen, S of Bismarck Strait and extending W to Lumus Rock] APC, 1959a, p.12; BA chart 3572, 12.viii.1960; [as now defined] 29.xi.1974; APC, 1975, p.5).

The myriad of islands, the largest of which are Booth and Hovgaard Islands, extending from Bismarck Strait SW to Lumus Rock, off the W coast of Graham Land. Discovered by a German expedition under Dallmann, 1873-74. He named them for Wilhelm I, then Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia.