Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud

Renaud Island

Renaud Island is an ice-covered island, long and from wide, lying between the Pitt Islands and Rabot Island in the Biscoe Islands.- Discovery :...

, Rabot

Rabot Island

Rabot Island is an island long and wide, lying south of Renaud Island in the Biscoe Islands. First charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903-05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who named it for Charles Rabot.Originally discovered by John Biscoe....

, Lavoisier

Lavoisier Island

Lavoisier Island is an island long and wide, lying between Rabot and Watkins Islands in the Biscoe Islands. It is named Isla Serrano by Chile and isla Mitre by Argentina....

 (named Serrano by Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

 and Mitre by Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

) and Watkins

Watkins Island

Watkins Island is a low lying, ice-covered island long, lying SW of Lavoisier Island in the Biscoe Islands. The island was first mapped by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1903–05 and 1908–10, but remained unnamed until resighted by the BGLE under Rymill, 1934–37. He...

, lying parallel to the W coast of Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

 and extending some 80 miles (128.7 km) (80 nautical mile?) in a NE–SW direction. They are named for John Biscoe

John Biscoe

John Biscoe was an English mariner and explorer who commanded the first expedition known to have sighted the areas named Enderby Land and Graham Land along the coast of Antarctica...

, commander of a British expedition which explored the islands on February 17 and February 18, 1832.

See also

• Bates Island
  Bates Island
  Bates Island is a narrow island nearly long lying east of Jurva Point, Renaud Island, in the Biscoe Islands, that was first accurately shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Charles C. Bates, American oceanographer who...
  
  
• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
  Scar
  Scars are areas of fibrous tissue that replace normal skin after injury. A scar results from the biological process of wound repair in the skin and other tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a natural part of the healing process. With the exception of very minor lesions, every wound results in...
  
  
• Southwind Passage
  Southwind Passage
  Southwind Passage is a navigable passage between Betheder Islands and Dickens Rocks, located at the north extremity of the Biscoe Islands. Named by Captain Sumner R. Dolber, USCG, commander of the USCGC 1967-68 season....
  
  
• Territorial claims in Antarctica