COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

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).

Second largest island of the Palmer Archipelago, lying between Anvers and Liege Islands. It is 33 mi long in a N-S direction, 16 mi wide, and rises to 2,520 m in Mount Parry. Named by the BelgAE under Gerlache, 1897-99, for the province of Brabant, Belgium, in recognition of the support given to the BelgAE by its citizens.

rising to c. 1450m on Pasteur Peninsula, Brabant Island, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of medicine grouped in this area, named after John Hunter (1728-93), British surgeon, comparative anatomist and physiologist, who revolutionized the approach to surgery as an exact science in relation to other aspects of medicine; Surgeon General and Inspector General of Hospitals to the British Army, 1790-93 (APC, 1960, p.5; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974); climbed by JSEBI, 14 January 1984.