11-404: Mendez-Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud , Lavoisier (named Serrano by Chile and Mitre by Argentina ), Watkins , Krogh , Pickwick and Rabot , lying parallel to the west coast of Graham Land and extending 150 km (81 nmi) between Southwind Passage on the northeast and Matha Strait on the southwest. Another group of islands are
22-407: A specially converted Auster Autocar for smaller scale aerial survey work. In 1960 the firm was merged with Hunting Geophysics Ltd to form Hunting Surveys Ltd. Threatened with closure in the mid-1980s, it was merged with sister company Hunting Aerofilms Ltd to become simply Aerofilms Ltd in 1987. The new company was able to provide state-of-the-art serial survey work and associated mapping, with
33-584: Is on the northwest coast of the island. It was mapped from air photos by Hunting Aerosurveys , 1956–57, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Kou Kusunoki , a Japanese sea ice specialist. This Biscoe Islands location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hunting Aerosurveys Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd was a British aerial photography company founded by Percy Hunting in 1944. Its operations became more diversified under
44-683: The Adolph Islands . The islands are named for Daren Mendez-Biscoe , the commander of a Spanish-British expedition which explored the islands in March 1832. This Biscoe Islands location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Renaud Island Renaud Island is an ice-covered island in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica , 40 km (25 mi) long and from 6.4 to 16.1 km (4 to 10 mi) (average 11.3 km (7 mi)) wide, lying between
55-643: The Pitt Islands and Rabot Island . It is separated from the Pitt Islands to the northeast by Mraka Sound , and from Lavoisier Island to the southwest by Pendleton Strait . The Biscoe Islands were discovered in 1832 by a British expedition under John Biscoe and were first roughly surveyed by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot , 1903–05 and 1908–10. It was on this second expedition that Renaud Island
66-486: The 1950s. Weaver Point forms the northernmost end of the island. It was named for American professor of geography John C. Weaver . 2.5 nmi (4.6 km) to the east is Tula Point, the island's northeast extremity. Alino Island lies 1 km south-southeast of Tula Point. The point was named for the Tula , one of the two vessels from Biscoe's expedition. Zubov Bay is a bay 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide, indenting
77-455: The east side of Renaud Island. It was named for Soviet oceanographer Nikolay Nikolaevich Zubov . Jurva Point is the extremity of a small peninsula forming the southeast end of the island. It was named for Risto Jurva , a Finnish pioneer in sea ice studies. Lively Point forms the southern extremity of Renaud Island. The point was named for the cutter Lively , Biscoe's other vessel. Armstrong Reef extends for 9 km (6 mi) from
88-803: The name Hunting Surveys . The firm incorporated Aerofilms Ltd and the Aircraft Operating Company . In 1947 it was using three types of aircraft: Austers , a Percival Proctor and a de Havilland Dragon Rapide and planned to acquire one or more Percival Mergansers . The company had contracts for work surveying for tin mining in Nigeria; oil in Arabia, Venezuela and Colombia; timber in Ontario; and mapping in Australia & Hong Kong (in 1963). Between 1957 and 1964, Hunting operated
99-456: The oblique aerial photography that Aerofilms had been undertaking since 1919. In 1997 the company was sold to Simmons Mapping in Somerset, a move that ultimately led to the complete closure of the oblique photography business (and its long-established photo library) in 2006, with the vertical / survey side of the business passing to the Somerset operation. This article about a company of
110-426: The south-west end of Renaud Island. Malmgren Bay indents the west side of the island, immediately north of Speerschneider Point on nearby Belogushev Island . It was named for Swedish meteorologist Finn Malmgren . Maurstad Point lies midway along the west side of the island, 6.5 nautical miles (12 km) north-northeast of Speerschneider Point. It was named for Norwegian geographer Alf Maurstad . Kusunoki Point
121-604: Was first charted and named. Renaud Island was again roughly surveyed in 1935–36 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE). A number of the island's geographical features have been individually charted and named. The majority, except where noted below, were first accurately charted on an Argentine government chart of 1957, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) during
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