Booth Island

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The Booth Island ( also convertible Island) is a rocky, Y-shaped, eight-kilometer island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica.

Discovered and named the island was by a German expedition led by Eduard Dallmann in January 1874. It got its name probably after the members of the Hamburg Geographical Society Oskar Booth and Stanley Booth.

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names rejected the name " convertible island " that the island had received from the Belgica expedition, led by Adrien de Gerlache 1897-1899 in honor of the Danish Hydro Count Carl Frederik change (1843-1930) to benefit from the original naming. The narrow passage between the island and the mainland is the scenic Lemaire Channel. The French Antarctic expedition on the schooner Français under the direction of Jean -Baptiste Charcot wintered in a bay of Booth Island in 1904.

The highest point of the island is the change peak with an altitude of 980 m, which was first climbed in February 2010 by the French mountaineers Mathieu Cortial, Lionel Daudet, and Patrick Wagnon, after several previous attempts had failed.