Lockyer Island

The Lockyer Island (English Lockyer Iceland, Spanish isla Lockyer ) is a rocky, heavily glaciated island in the Weddell Sea. It lies about 55 km east of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Geography

The island is located at the southwest exit of the Admiralty road. It is on the northern James Ross Island about 5.5 km from the Snow Hill Island in the east 5 km and from Jefford Point. The Lockyer Island is from northeast to southwest with a width of 3.5 km is about 5.5 km long. The 450 m high island falls away steeply on all sides. The lower southwestern part carries a icecap, several large glaciers extend from the off to the coast.

History

James Clark Ross discovered the island on January 7, 1843 from a distance and held it for a cape of a larger country. At the request of his officer Francis Crozier, he named it after his friend Nicholas Lockyer (1782-1847) Cape Lockyer. Only Otto Nordenskjold recognized in 1902 during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, that it is an island. The expedition had taken up their winter quarters on the near Snow Hill Island.