Brabant Island

Brabant Island

Location of Brabant Island
Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	64°15′S 62°20′W / 64.250°S 62.333°WCoordinates: 64°15′S 62°20′W / 64.250°S 62.333°W
Archipelago	Palmer Archipelago
Length	59 km (36.7 mi)
Width	30 km (19 mi)
Highest elevation	2,520 m (8,270 ft)
Highest point	Mount Parry
Country
None
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

Brabant Island is the second largest island of the Palmer Archipelago within the British Antarctic Territory, lying between Anvers Island and Liège Island. Brabant Island is 59 km (37 mi) long north-south, 30 km (19 mi) wide, and rises to 2,520 m (8,268 ft) in Mount Parry. The interior of the island is occupied by two mountain ranges, Solvay Mountains (Cook Summit, 1590 m) in its southern part and Stribog Mountains (summit Mount Parry) in its central and northern parts.

It 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), 1993–2016.
• 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.

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
• Territorial claims in Antarctica

References

1. "Brabant Island". United States Gazetteer. Retrieved 2013-11-19.
2. "Joint Services Expedition to Brabant Island, Antarctica, 1984/85". The Geographical Journal. Retrieved 2013-11-19.

External links

• Map of the area
• U.S. Geological Survey, Atlas of Antarctic Research
• (Portuguese) Brazilian Antarctic Program

Brabant Island seen from northeast, with Hoseason Island and Liège Island in the foreground, and Anvers Island (on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background.