COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

off E coast of Brabant Island at SW end of Freud Passage, was roughly charted by BeAE in January 1898 (Lecointe, 1903, Carte 5); called Isla Jenie by CAE, 1947, after a relative of a member of the expedition (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947; IHA, 1974, p.164); called Isla Pampa by AAE, 1947-48, after the transport ship Pampa, which took part in the expedition (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.573); surveyed by FIDS from Norsel in April 1955 and photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; named Hunt Island after Lieut. Cdr (later Cdr) Frank William Hunt, RN (b. 1922), Officer-in-charge of the RN Hydrographic Survey Unit attached to FIDS, 1951-52, who made surveys in Bransfield Strait and the Palmer Archipelago area (APC, 1958, p.5; BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959). Pampa Island (USBGN, 1965, p.103).

El nombre aparece por primera vez en las cartas chilenas del año 1947, puesto en recuerdo de algún familiar de uno de los integrantes de la Expedición Antártica Chilena del mismo año. Es una isla que mide 13 cables de extensión y alcanza una altura de 473 metros situada a 5,5 millas al SW de islote Gue salaga, frente a la costa E de la isla Brabante.

An island 1.5 mi long and 475 m high, which lies off the E coast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago. The island lies 1 mi NE of Pinel Point and is separated from Brabant Island by the southern part of Pampa Passage. First roughly charted by the BelgAE, 1897-99. Named by the Argentine expedition of 1947-48 in association with Pampa Passage.