The Wilhelm Archipelago is an island archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica .
5-801: The Argentine Islands are a group of islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago of Antarctica , situated 9 km (5 nmi) southwest of Petermann Island , and 7 km (4 nmi) northwest of Cape Tuxen on Kyiv Peninsula in Graham Land . They were discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05 , under Jean-Baptiste Charcot , and named by him for the Argentine Republic , in appreciation of that government's support of his expedition. The British Graham Land Expedition under John Riddoch Rymill
10-558: The main building from this base, Wordie House, is now a protected historic site (HSM-62). The base was moved to Galindez Island in 1954, renamed "Faraday" in 1977, and transferred to the Ukrainian Antarctic program in 1996, who continue to operate it as Vernadsky Research Base . The Argentine Islands have a polar climate that lies in the transition zone between an ice cap climate and a tundra climate, displaying an unusually continental version of that climate for being on
15-418: The ocean. [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from "Argentine Islands" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Wilhelm Archipelago Wilhelm Archipelago consists of numerous islands, the largest of which are Booth Island and Hovgaard Island . The archipelago extends from Bismarck Strait southwest to Lumus Rock , off
20-446: The west coast of Graham Land . 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. [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from "Wilhelm Archipelago" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . [REDACTED] This Wilhelm Archipelago location article
25-576: Was based in the Argentine Islands in 1935 and conducted a thorough survey of them. The expedition built a hut on Winter Island , which was used as their northern base; it was left in place at the end of the expedition, but destroyed circa 1946. The following year, the British Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey established a permanent base on the same site, as " Base F " (or "Argentine Islands");
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