 Named by C. R. Eklund, station scientific leader, for Utilities Man 2nd Class Edward A. Bousquet, USN, a Navy Support force member of the 1957 wintering party at Wilkes Station during the International Geophysical Year (IGY).Bousquet Island lies south-south-east of Casey Station, operated year-round by the Australian Government Antarctic Division in Hobart, Tasmania.Sometimes also known as Little Herring Island, the site is well-known to Casey expeditioners for its population of breeding Weddell Seals which pup on the sea ice in theimmediate vicinity of the island.