Brown Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Brown Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
one of the Wauwermans Islands (q.v.), Wilhelm Archipelago, was charted by BGLE in January 1936 and named descriptively (Rymill, 1938b; BA chart 3196, 12.xi.1948; APC, 1955, p.6; BA chart 3572, 25.vii.1958). Brown Island Reef, including nearby rocks (USHO chart 6653, 1946). Arrecife Brown (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947). Île Brown (France. SHM, 1954, p.48). The island was recharted by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit from HMS Protector in 1956-57. Islas Pardas [=brown islands] (Argentina. MM chart 130, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.575). Isla Brown (Chile. DNH chart 1501, 1962; IHA, 1974, p.56).
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