The Bayard Islands are a small group of islands lying 1 miles (1.6 km) northeast of Cape Willems

Cape Willems

Cape Willems is a cape forming the north side of the entrance to Flandres Bay on the west coast of Graham Land. First charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, and named by Gerlache for Pierre Willems....

, off the west 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...

. They were charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition

Belgian Antarctic Expedition

The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897 to 1899, named after its expedition vessel Belgica, was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region.- Preparation and Surveying :...

 under Gerlache, 1897–99, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...

 in 1960 for Hippolyte Bayard

Hippolyte Bayard

-Late career:Despite his initial hardships in photography, Bayard continued to be a productive member of the photographic society. He was a founding member of the French Society of Photography...

, a French civil servant who, in 1839, independently invented a photographic process for obtaining direct positives on paper.