Cheesman Island

Cheesman Island
British Antarctic Territory
Location
Location:	69°43’35"S, 75°11’6"W
Data

Cheesman Island lies off the north coast of Charcot Island, itself off Alexander Island in the British Antarctic Territory.

The island, was photographed from the air and roughly mapped by Wilkins on 29 December 1929. It was photographed again from the air on the United States Navy Operation "Highjump", 1946-47.

Following map compilation from air photographs by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1959, the island was named after Flight-Lieutenant Silas Alward Cheesman of the Royal Canadian Air Force (1900-58), of St John, New Brunswick and Thunder Bay, Ontario, the Canadian pilot on Wilkins' 1929 flight and on Wilkins' 1937-38 air expedition over the Beaufort Sea in search of six missing Soviet airmen.

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Cheesman Island