COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

W of Coronation Island, comprising three main islands and offlying rocks, the W-most part of the South Orkney Islands, were charted by Powell from Dove, 6 December 1821, as "three spiral rocks quite inaccessible", and named Inaccessible Isles (Powell, 1822b, p.7-8; chart, 1822a). IÎles Inacessibles [sic](Powell, 1824a, map facing p.5). Inaccessible Islands (BA chart 1238, ix.1839; 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.12; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963). IÎles Inaccessibles (d'Urville, 1838, map following p.1170). IÎles Inaceesibles [sic] (d'Urville, 1842, end map). Inaccessible Inseln (Petermann, map, 1867). The Inaccessibles (BA, 1874, p.367). Inaccessibles Inseln (Fricker, 1898, map p.119). Isla Inacesible [sic] (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map). Inaccessible Island (Sørlle, chart, 1912). IÎles Inaccessible (CSM chart B'I 1921). Islas Inaccesibles [sic] (Argentina. MM chart 31, 1930; Pierrou, 1970, p.437). Inaccessible Øyane (Sørlle, chart, [1930]). The islands were recharted by DI in January 1933, when the first landing was made (Marr, 1935, p.295). Inaccesslble [sic] Islands (USHO chart 2562, 1943). Inacoessible [sic] Islands (USAAF chart [LR-] 74, 1943). Islas Inaccesible (Ihl C. and Ayala A., map facing p.64). Inaccessable [sic] Öyane (Hansen, 1947a, chart 5). Ostrova Inaksessibl (Baranov and others, 1954, map p.283). Inacessable [sic] Island (USHO chart 958, 1956). Inaccesible [sic] Islands (USDMAAC chart JNC-118N, 1975).

Group of small precipituous islands ranging from 120 to 215 m high, the westernmost features of the South Orkney Islands, lying 20 mi W of Coronation Island. Discovered in December 1821 by Capt. George Powell, a British sealer in the sloop sealer in the sloop James Monroe, though it is possible they are the Seal Islands seen by Palmer a year earlier. So named by Powell because of their appearance of inaccessibility.