Louise Island is an ice-covered island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 0.6 miles (1 km) long, lying 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Emma Island

Emma Island, Antarctica

Emma Island is a 1.5 mile long island with bare jagged peaks projecting through an icecap, lying 1 mile east of Louise Island and 4 miles west of Nansen Island in the southwest half of the entrance to Wilhelmina Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land...

, and 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Cape Anna

Cape Anna

Cape Anna is a prominent black cape rising to 280 m, immediately west of Anna Cove, located 1 mile west of Louise Island and the entrance to Hugershoff Cove, and 2.3 miles northeast of Mount Fourcade, and forming the north tip of Arctowski Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land. Discovered...

 and Anna Cove

Anna Cove

Anna Cove is a cove immediately east of Cape Anna at the north end of the Arctowski Peninsula, along the west coast of Graham Land. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition on January 30, 1898, and named in association with Cape Anna....

 on the southwest side of the entrance to Wilhelmina Bay

Wilhelmina Bay

Wilhelmina Bay is a bay wide between the Reclus Peninsula and Cape Anna along the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, and named for Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands....

, 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of the entrance to Hugershoff Cove

Hugershoff Cove

Hugershoff Cove is a cove lying less than 1 nautical mile south from Louise Island and Emma Island, and 2 nautical miles northwest of Beaupre Cove in Wilhelmina Bay, along the west coast of Graham Land. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897-99. Named by the United...

, along 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...

. Discovered 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 :...

, 1897–99, under Lieutenant Adrien de Gerlache

Adrien de Gerlache

Baron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery was an officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897 to 1899.-His early years:...

, and named by him for his sister.