False Island () is the largest of three islands lying at the east side of
Hackapike Bay
Hackapike Bay is an anchorage northwest of Ryswyck Point, entered west of False Island along the northeast coast of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It was charted and named by the British Graham Land Expedition, 1934–37 ...
, off the northeast coast of
Anvers Island, in the
Palmer Archipelago. Two islands were charted in this approximate position by the
French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05
The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica.
First expedition
In 1772, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec and the naturalist Jean Guillaume Bruguière sailed to the Antarctic region in search of the fable ...
, under
Jean-Baptiste Charcot. False Island was named by
Discovery Investigations personnel on the
''Discovery'' in 1927.
Other False Islands
There are two islands in
Western Australia each named False Island. One is near Onslow in the north-west of the state. The other is near Albany off the south coast.
See also
*
List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
References
Islands of the Palmer Archipelago
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