Rosamel Island
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Rosamel Island is an island lying in the south-eastern entrance of the Antarctic Sound which separates the Joinville Island Group from the Trinity Peninsula at the tip of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory.
The island is located at the eastern end of the Tabarin Peninsula which is itself the eastern extremity of the Trinity Peninsula. It lies just to the north of Andersson Island and south of Dundee Island and the Joinville Island Group.
Discovery and naming
The island was roughly mapped form a distance by the French Antarctic Expedition in 1838, who failed to distinguish this island from its neighbour and gave the name Île Rosamel to what later explorers found to be two islands. The name was given in honour of Vice Admiral Claude Charles Marie du Campe de Rosamel, the French Naval Minister.
Today 'Rosamel Island' is the name applied to the more northerly of the two islands of the Antarctic Sound, while its neighbour is Andersson Island.
The island was recharted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in January 1902, who called it Jul Ön (the Christmas Island), which name has appeared in various translations on past maps
The island was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Hope Bay in 1945-47.
See also
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Rosamel Island
