| Bates Island | |
| Image Map Caption: | Location of Bates Island |
| Map: | Antarctic Peninsula#Antarctica |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Antarctica |
| Location: | Antarctica |
| Population: | Uninhabited |
| Country: | None |
| Treaty System: | Antarctic Treaty System |
Bates Island is a narrow island 5km (03miles) long lying east of Jurva Point, Renaud Island, in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica. It was first accurately shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Charles C. Bates, an American oceanographer who has specialised in sea ice studies.[1]
A circular 500 ha tract of land and sea, centred on an islet lying about 700 m to the south of Bates, has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding colony of Antarctic shags, with about 150 pairs recorded there in 1986.[2]