The Wilhelm Archipelago is an island

archipelago An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands. Examples of archipelagos include: the Indonesian Arch ...

off the west coast of the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...

. Wilhelm Archipelago consists of numerous islands, the largest of which are

Booth Island Booth Island (or Wandel Island) is a rugged, Y-shaped island, long and rising to off the northwest coast of Kyiv Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica in the northeastern part of the Wilhelm Archipelago. The narrow passage between the island an ...

and Hovgaard Island. The archipelago extends from Bismarck Strait southwest to Lumus Rock, off the west coast of

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee an ...

. It was discovered by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann, 1873–74. He named them for Wilhelm I, then German Emperor and King of Prussia.

Island groups

* Anagram Islands * Argentine Islands *

Betbeder Islands The Betbeder Islands are a group of small islands and rocks in the southwest part of the Wilhelm Archipelago, west of Cape Tuxen. They were discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and named by Jean-Baptiste Charcot for Rear Ad ...

* Cruls Islands *

Dannebrog Islands The Dannebrog Islands are a group of islands and rocks lying between the Wauwermans Islands and the Vedel Islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago. The Wilhelm Archipelago was first sighted and named by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann, 187 ...

* Myriad Islands * Roca Islands * Vedel Islands * Wauwermans Islands * Yalour Islands

References

Islands of Antarctica Archipelagoes of the Southern Ocean {{WilhelmArchipelago-geo-stub

Island groups

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