There is a passage from the southwestern end of the Gerlache Strait through Paradise Harbour and between Lemaire Island and the mainland into Andvord Bay to the northeast.
The head of Paradise Harbor terminates in Skontorp and Oscar coves, both narrow circular inlets with steep glaciers on the shore, the arms of which show the granite structure.
There is almost constant movement of ice betsween the mainland and the two islands, Lemaire and Bryde, changing direction with the two tides daily and attaining rates up to 3 knots.
[3] In 1950, a shelter was erected near the Chilean Base to honour Gabriel González Videla, the first head of state to visit the Antarctic.
Remapped by the 5th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1950-51) and named for Lieutenant Commander Francisco Suárez V., Operations Officer on the transport ship Angamos.
The low westernmost termination of the peninsula between Paradise Harbour and Andvord Bay on the west coast of Graham Land.
A mountain, about 600 metres (2,000 ft) high, rising 0.5 nautical miles (0.93 km; 0.58 mi) east-southeast of Waterboat Point.
A cove in Paradise Harbour, lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) southeast of Bryde Island.
Named for Edvard Skontorp, an outstanding Norwegian whale gunner, who commanded a whaler for Salvesen and Co. of Leith, Scotland.
A peak, 1,350 metres (4,430 ft) high, rising 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) southeast of Mount Banck.
Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron (1837-1920), French pioneer of cinematography, the first man to lay down the fundamental principles of color photography, in 1869.
Named for Lieutenant Eladio Mascias of the tug Chiriguano which made a survey of the area during the Argentine Antarctic Expedition of 1949-50.
A conspicuous mountain of red rock, 675 metres (2,215 ft) high, dominating the small peninsula just west of Mascias Cove.
In 1898 the BelgAE under Anton de Gerlache applied the name "Ile Banck" to a feature which was charted as an island separated from the mainland by a narrow channel.
The north extremity of the small peninsula on which Mount Banck stands, lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) south of Byrde Island.
The toponym appears on a Chilean government chart of 1951 and is for the chief stoker Clorindo Leniz Gallejo, on board the tender Yelcho which rescued the crew of the Endurance from Elephant Island in August 1916.