Gerlache Island

Location of Anvers Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Gerlache Island is the largest of the Rosenthal Islands lying off Gerlache Point^[1] on the west coast of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It was first roughly charted and named "Pointe de Gerlache" by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, for Lieutenant Adrien de Gerlache. As a result of surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1956–58, this island is considered to be the feature named by Charcot; there is no prominent point in this vicinity which would be visible from seaward.^[2]

Important Bird Area[]

Gerlache forms part of the Rosenthal Islands Important Bird Area (IBA), designated as such by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding colony of gentoo penguins, with about 3000 pairs recorded there in 1987. It lies within ASMA 7 - Southwest Anvers Island and Palmer Basin.^[3]

See also[]

• List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

References[]

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Gerlache Island". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)

Coordinates: 64°35′S 64°16′W / 64.583°S 64.267°W / -64.583; -64.267

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