Rosenthal Islands

The Rosenthal Islands are a small group of islands, consisting of Gerlache Island and a scatter of islets off the coast of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago in the British Antarctic Territory.

The islets lie to the north-north-west of Cape Monaco on the west coast of Anvers Island.

The islands were roughly charted by the German Antarctic Expedition, 1873-74, and named Rosenthal-Inseln after Albert Rosenthal, Director of the Deutsche Polarschifffahrts-Gesellschaft (the German Society for Polar Navigation), who arranged the voyage of the expedition ship Grönland (from which Cape Grönland is named). They were further charted by the French Antarctic Expedition of 1903-05. The islands were photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956.

Location

• Location map: 64°36’-0"S, 64°16’59"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Rosenthal Islands