
Wiencke Island
(Palmer Archipelago)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 64° 49' 22" S 63° 23' 14" W
S-most of the larger islands in Palmer Archipelago, separated from Anvers Island by Neumayer Channel (q.v.) and from Danco Coast by Gerlache Strait, was circumnavigated and roughly charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 8-9 February 1898, and named Île Wiencke after August-Karl Wiencke (1877-98), a sailor in the expedition ship Belgica who was drowned, 22 January 1898. The island was further charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903-05, in March 1904, when a landing was made. The island was partly surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Port Lockroy' in 1944. The island was further surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Arthur Harbour' and from Norsel in 1955, and photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956.