Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Cheesman Island

(Charcot Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 69° 43' 35" S 75° 11' 6" W
off N coast of Charcot Island, was photographed from the air and roughly mapped by Wilkins on 29 December 1929; 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, named after Flight-Lieut. Silas Alward Cheesman, RCAF (1900-58), of St John, NB, and Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canadian pilot on Wilkins' 1929 flight and on Wilkins' 1937-38 air expedition over the Beaufort Sea in search of six missing Soviet airmen.