Abbott Island (Antarctica)
| Abbott Island | ||
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| Waters | Bouquet Bay | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 6 ′ S , 62 ° 8 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Abbott Island is an uninhabited island in the Palmer Archipelago off the northwest coast of the Antarctic Peninsula , about two kilometers west of Davis Island in the southern section of Bouquet Bay in the northwest of the Brabant Island .
It was roughly mapped by participants in the French Antarctic Expedition from 1903 to 1905 under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . A more detailed mapping was carried out in 1959 using aerial photographs by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. between 1956 and 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the island after the Canadian medic Maude Abbott (1869-1940).
Web links
- Abbott Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Abbott Island on geographic.org (English)