Booth Island
island in Antarctica
Booth Island (or Wandel Island; 65°4′48″S 64°0′0″W) is a Y-shaped island, 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) long and rising to 980 metres (3,220 ft) in the northeast part of the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica.
Location
Booth Island is off the east end of the Graham Coast on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula.
It is in the Wilhelm Archipelago, to the northeast of the Vedel Islands and southwest of the Wauwermans Islands.
It is separated from the mainland by the Lemaire Channel, to the southeast. It is east of Cape Renard at the entrance to Flandres Bay.
Booth Island is partly covered by an ice cap of varying thickness. The ice is at most slightly more than 24 metres (80 ft) thick.
Sailing directions
The US Defense Mapping Agency's Sailing Directions for Antarctica (1976) describes Booth Island as follows:
Booth Island (Wandel Island) is the largest of the [Dannebrog Islands], being about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide near the middle, and is situated about 4 miles southwestward of Cape Renard. It is high and rugged, and consists of two rocky masses joined by a low narrow peninsula of ice and snow. The northern of these masses rises to an elevation of 2,083 feet in Mount Lacroix (Mount Lecroix), a rounded summit presenting on all sides vertical walls colored red by iron pyrites.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Booth Island” as island in Antarctica. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as island in Antarctica. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q525633. Authority coordinates are -65.080, -64.000. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976.
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