
Wilhelm Archipelago
(Graham Coast)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 65° 7' 59" S 64° 19' 59" W
consists of all islands and rocks N and W of Graham Coast, S of Bismarck Strait and N of Southwind Passage, lying between Palmer Archipelago and Biscoe Islands, extending W to Lumus Rock and including from N to S Wauwermans Islands, Dannebrog Islands, Myriad Islands, Booth Island, Hovgaard Island, Vedel Islands, Petermann Island, Roca Islands, Cruls Islands, Anagram Islands, Argentine Islands, Jalour Islands, Betbeder Islands (q.v.) and offliers. The W islands of the archipelago were sighted by Biscoe in February 1832. The archipelago was roughly charted by the German Antarctic Expedition, 1873-74, in January 1874 and named Kaiser Wilhelm Inseln after Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Emperor of Germany, 1888-1918. The N islands in the archipelago were photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57.