[1] The Vedel Islands are off the Graham Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.

The next largest Le Myre de Vilers, is located close northward and has a small cove on the north shore which is open to northeastward.

The Vedel Islets have not been fully examined because this group is usually ice-locked.A BEACON, 20 feet high, has been established on an island of the Stray Islands, a small group of islets which lies south of the Vedel Islets and west of Petermann Island.

It consists of a post painted red with a cylindrical topmark painted in black and yellow bands.Many dangers are charted westward, north-westward, and northward of the Vedel Islets to a distance of 5 miles; the navigator's attention is called to the note "Position Approximate," which applies to most of these dangers on the chart.

[3]The largest island of this group was discovered in 1898 and given the name Vedel Island by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE) under Adrien de Gerlache.

The French Antarctic Expedition (FrAE) under Charcot charted the remaining islands in 1904, and again in 1909, when the name was extended to include the entire group.

A rocky island 963 metres (3,159 ft) long in W-E direction and 373 metres (1,224 ft) wide in the Vedel Islands group.

Discovered during German Antarctic Expedition 1873/74 under Captain Eduard Dallmann (1830-1896).

A mostly ice-free rocky island extending 848 metres (2,782 ft) in a south–north direction and 705 metres (2,313 ft) in a west–east direction in the Vedel Islands.

Situated 3.77 kilometres (2.34 mi) northwest of Hovgaard Island, 50 metres (160 ft) northwest of Friedburginsel, 652 metres (2,139 ft) east-southeast of Rak Island and 37 metres (121 ft) south of Lapa Island.

Situated 4.9 kilometres (3.0 mi) northwest of Petermann Island, 160 metres (520 ft) northeast of Kormoran Island, 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) southeast of Bager Island and 105 metres (344 ft) southwest of Friedburginsel.

Mapped by the FIDS from photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57 and from the helicopter of HMS Protector in March 1958.