Brabant Island

Brabant Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Brabant Island  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 1726
Name ID: 107912

Feature type: Island

Origin

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:

Narrative

extending from 64°00'S to 64°32'S and separated from Danco Coast by Gerlache Strait. The N coast was discovered by Foster in 1829 (Foster and Kendall, chart, 1829a) and probably sighted by GAE, 1973-74, in January 1874. The E coast was roughly mapped by BeAE, 23 January-8 February 1898, when a landing was made (d'Ursel Point, q.v.) and the island was named Île Brabant after the Belgian province Brabant, which contributed towards the cost of that expedition (Lecointe, chart, 1899; Gerlache, 1900b, p.472). Brabant Island (BA chart 1238, viii.1900; APC, 1955, p.6; BA chart 3570, 5.i.1951; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974). Isola Brabant (Gerlache, 1902a). Brabant-Insel (Cook, 1903, map following p.x). Brabant Tn (Nordenskj"ld and others, 1904a, Del. 1, end map). The N and W coasts of the island were roughly charted by FAE, 1903-05, in February 1904 and January 1905 (Matha and Rey, 1911, Pl. 1 following p.615). Isla Brabante [sic] (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904-05, Tomo 1, end map; Pierrou, 1970, p.214; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.53). Brabant Eiland (Ruys, 1905, map following p.88). Isla Brabant (Jalour, [1907b], map following p.196). Brabant T (HA chart, 1928). Brabantöya (Risting, 1929, map p.33). Brabant-Ten (Aagaard, 1930, end map). Brabant"ia (Isachsen, 1934, p.134). Isla Brabanta [sic] (Rymill and others, 1938, map facing p.272). Brabant ya (Aagaard, 1944, p.32). Isla Brambant [sic] (Vila Labra, 1947, map p.203). Isla Branbant [sic] (Ihl C. and Ayala A., 1947, map facing p.64). Isla Bravant [sic] (Orrego Vicuña, 1948, p.201). Isla Jos' Toribio Medina, after the "illustrious Chilean polygrapher" (Orrego Vicuña, 1948, p.201 and end map). Isola Brabante (Zavatti, 1952, p.510). J. [sic] Brabante (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.246a). Isla Bravante [sic] (Argentina. MM chart 106a, 1954). Ostrov Brabant (Baranov and others, 1954, map p.283). The island was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57 and subsequently mapped from air photographs. Ostrov Brabantsky (B rtl, 1958, map facing p.144). Brabant (González-Ferrán and Vergara, 1972, map Fig. 1, p.191). Brabaut [sic] Island (BA, 1974, p.181). Isla Brabantf [sic] (Alarcón and others, 1976, Fig. 2, p.11). The island was further surveyed by JSEBI (Furse, 1986).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
64° 17' 00.0" S
-64.28333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
62° 20' 00.0" W
-62.33333°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
8-Sep-1953

Related information

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