Rasmussen Island () is a small island in the north part of

Waddington Bay Waddington Bay is an Antarctic bay long, in a NW-SE direction, and wide, indenting the west coast of Kyiv Peninsula, Graham Land, immediately north of Cape Tuxen. This bay is partially defined on the charts of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, ...

, on the west coast of Graham Land. The north entrance to Waddington Bay was named " Cap Rasmussen" by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache, but air photos show no significant point there which can be reidentified without ambiguity. To preserve the original name in the vicinity, the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 applied the name Rasmussen to this island.

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