Gerlache Island

Gerlache Island is the largest of the Rosenthal Islands lying off Gerlache Point[1] on the west coast of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It was first roughly charted and named "Pointe de Gerlache" by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, for Lieutenant Adrien de Gerlache. As a result of surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1956–58, this island is considered to be the feature named by Charcot; there is no prominent point in this vicinity which would be visible from seaward.[2]

Location of Anvers Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Important Bird Area

Gerlache forms part of the Rosenthal Islands Important Bird Area (IBA), designated as such by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding colony of gentoo penguins, with about 3000 pairs recorded there in 1987. It lies within ASMA 7 - Southwest Anvers Island and Palmer Basin.[3]

See also
  • List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

References
  1. Punta de Gerlache. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
  2. "Gerlache Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-04-22.
  3. "Rosenthal Islands". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2020.

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