Argentine Islands

Argentine Islands
Location of the Argentine Islands

The Argentine Islands are a group of islands 5 nautical miles (9 km) southwest of Petermann Island and 4 nautical miles (7 km) northwest of Cape Tuxen, in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Antarctic Peninsula. They were discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named by him for the Argentine Republic in appreciation of that government's support of to his expedition.

History

Wordie House, photographed in 2013

The British Graham Land Expedition under John Riddoch Rymill was based in the Argentine Islands in 1935 and conducted a thorough survey of them.[1] The expedition built a hut on Winter Island, which was used as their northern base; it was left in place at the end of the expedition, but destroyed circa 1946. The following year, the British Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey established a permanent base on the same site, as "Base F" (or "Argentine Islands"); the main building from this base, Wordie House, is now a protected historic site (HSM-61). The base was moved to Galindez Island in 1954, renamed "Faraday" in 1977, and transferred to the Ukrainian Antarctic program in 1996, who continue to operate it as Vernadsky Research Base.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Argentine Islands". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  2. ↑ "Faraday station". British Antarctic Survey. Retrieved 2007-11-24.

Coordinates: 65°15′S 64°16′W / 65.250°S 64.267°W / -65.250; -64.267  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Argentine Islands" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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