TheBayard Islands (64°56′S63°14′W / 64.933°S 63.233°W /-64.933; -63.233) are a small group of islands lying 1.6 km (1 mi) northeast ofCape Willems, off the west coast ofGraham Land. They were charted by theBelgian Antarctic Expedition underGerlache, 1897–99, and named by theUK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 forHippolyte Bayard, a French civil servant who, in 1839, independently invented a photographic process for obtaining direct positives on paper.
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