Mikkelsen Islands

The Mikkelsen Islands lie in the entrance of Ryder Bay, off the south-east of Adelaide Island I the British Antarctic Territory. They are found east-south-east of another group, the Léonie Islands.

Along with their neighbours, these islands were roughly charted in January 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition of 1908-1910, and named IÎles Mikkelsen after Otto H. Mikkelsen, a Norwegian diver who inspected the damaged hull of the French Antarctic Expedition ship Pourquoi Pas? at Deception Island on 8 December 1909.

The islands were surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Stonington Island, in 1948-1950, and photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1957.

Location

• Location map: 67°38’3"S, 68°9’49"W