Spume Island is a small, low, rocky island lying southwest of Bonaparte Point, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It is located at . Spume Island was surveyed by the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit, 1956âÂÂ1957. Spume Island was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) because heavy seas break over the island in a gale; spume is blown over it.