Bransfield Island
| Bransfield Island | |
.jpg) Bransfield Island | |
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| Location: | 62°31’14"S, 74°24’53"W |
| Highest point: | Mount Owen, 3,724 feet |
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Bransfield Island is an island nearly five nautical miles long, lying three nautical miles southwest of D'Urville Island off the northeast end of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory.
The name "Point Bransfield", after Edward Bransfield, Master, Royal Navy, was given in 1842 by a British expedition under James Clark Ross to the low western termination of what is now the Joinville Island Group. A 1947 survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey determined that this western termination is a separate island.
Mount Owen
At Mount Owen he island climbs to 3,724 feet above sea level on the south side of the Johnston Glacier, near head of Nantucket Inlet.
The mountain was photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service on 30 December 1940, as one of "several isolated mountains", and further photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Expedition on 21 November, 1947, when it was found to lie further north than previously reported. It was surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Stonington Island in December 1947.
The feature was named 'Mount Arthur Owen' or 'Mount Owen', after Arthur Owen, a boy scout with the Ronne expedition and a dog-driver with FIDS-RARE sledge party in October 1947-January 1948.
See also
- Knobble Head, a feature of Bransfield Island.
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Bransfield Island