Brabant Island
| Brabant Island | |
 Location of Brabant Island | |
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| Location | |
| Location: | 64°15’0"S, 62°19’60"W |
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| Population: | Uninhabited |
Brabant Island is the second largest island of the Palmer Archipelago within the British Antarctic Territory, lying between Anvers Island and Liege Island. Brabant Island is 37 miles long north-south, 19 miles wide, and rises to 8,268 feet at the summit of Mount Parry. The interior of the island is occupied by two mountain ranges, Solvay Mountains (Cook Summit, 5,217 feet) in its southern part and Stribog Mountains (whose summit is Mount Parry) in its central and northern parts.
The island was named by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897-1899) under Adrien de Gerlache, who named it after the Belgian province of Brabant, in recognition of the support given to the expedition by its citizens.[1]
A paper summarizing the Joint Services expedition of 1984-1985 describes the island as "notoriously inhospitable" and states that there is evidence for only six visits between the discovery in 1898 and 1984.[2] Members of the expedition overwintered there in 1984-1985, and made the first ascent of Mount Parry.
Maps
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2015.
- British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
- Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.
Outside links
References
- ↑ "Brabant Island". United States Gazetteer. https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=122840. Retrieved 2013-11-19.
- ↑ "Joint Services Expedition to Brabant Island, Antarctica, 1984/85". The Geographical Journal. http://www.jstor.org/stable/634467. Retrieved 2013-11-19.