Booth Island

Booth Island from the south, Lemaire Channel barely visible on the right

Booth Island (or Wandel Island) is a rugged, Y-shaped island, 5 miles long and rising to 980 m, off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica in the northeastern part of the Wilhelm Archipelago. Booth Island is located at 65.08°S 64.0°W / -65.08; -64.0. Discovered and named by a German expedition under Dallmann 1873-1874, probably for Oskar Booth or Stanley Booth, or both, members of the Hamburg Geographical Society at that time. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names has rejected the name "Wandel Island", applied by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897-1899, in favor of the original naming. The narrow passage between the island and the mainland is the scenic Lemaire Channel.

The highest point of the island is 980-meter Wandel Peak, as of 2003 still unattained despite several attempts; Damien Gildea called it "one of the most challenging unclimbed objectives on the Antarctic Peninsula".

See also

• List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

External links

• Atlas of Antarctic Research, U.S. Geological Survey

References

• Damien Gildea, "Climbs and Expeditions: Antarctic Peninsula", American Alpine Journal vol. 45 no. 77 (2003) p. 335