Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Sterneck Island

(Danco Coast)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 64° 11' 34" S 61° 0' 58" W
between Cierva Point and Charles Point, Danco Coast, was charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition as a cape, 24 January 1898, and named Cap von Sterneck after Gen. R. von Sterneck, of Vienna, who designed the pendulum apparatus used by the expedition. The feature was charted as an island by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1947, and called Isla Telegrafista Rivera after Carlos Rivera T., a telegraphist on the expedition. The island was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57. Following study of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition air photographs, the island was identified as the feature originally named by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition as Sterneck Island.