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Rasmussen Island (65°15′S 64°5′W) is a small island in the north part of Waddington Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. The north entrance to Waddington Bay was named "Cap Rasmussen" by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache, but air photos show no significant point there which can be reidentified without ambiguity. To preserve the original name in the vicinity, the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 applied the name Rasmussen to this island. -- Wikipedia

Longitude: -64.0845; Latitude: -65.248. On NE side of entrance to Waddington Bay, Graham Coast. Following survey by BeAE, 12 February 1898, the name Cap Rasmussen was applied to the NE entrance point of the bay (Lecointe, map, 1899; 1900a, map facing p.132). The feature was not named, as formerly believed, after K.J.V. Rasmussen (Rasmussen Peninsula, q.v.), who was only 19 years old at the time, but may have been named after Jens Erik Carl Rasmussen (1841-93), Danish painter who visited Greenland in 1870 and in other years, who was drowned in the North Atlantic, 1 October 1893, and who may have been known to Dr F.A. Cook of BeAE (Cook Summit, q.v.) (Gilberg, 1983, p.504). Cape Rasmussen (Cook, 1900, map p.xx; APC, 1955, p.17). Sommet Rasmussen (Charcot, 1910, map p.266). Cabo Rasmussen (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Pierrou, 1970, p.617; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.238). Air photography by FIDASE, 1956-57, gave rise to uncertainty as to the exact location of the feature originally named by BeAE, and the name of Rasmussen was transferred to the present feature. Rasmussen Island (APC, 1959a, p.10; BA chart 3572, 12.viii.1960). Islote Rasmussen (Chile. DNH, 1962, p.178). "Cape Rasmussen", referring to the site of a cross and plaque dedicated, 9 February 1977, in memory of three members of BAS from Faraday who were lost following an ascent of Mount Peary (q.v.), 6 September 1976 (BAS, 1977b, p.5). A BAS refuge hut was established on the island in February 1985. -- British Antarctic Territory Gazetteer