Gerlache Island

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] 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] This article incorporates public domain material from "Gerlache Island".