
Cobalcescu Island
(Two Hummock Island)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 64° 10' 46" S 61° 38' 60" W
E of Two Hummock Island, Gerlache Strait, was charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition on 27 January 1898 and named I le Cobalcescu by Gerlache. The name is probably a toponym for Cobalcescu, after Professor Grigore Cobalcescu (1831-1892), First Professor of Geology, University of Iasi, Romania. I le Cobalcescu. The island was resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Norsel in April 1955 and photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956.