Aspland Island
Aspland Island | ||
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Waters | Southern ocean | |
Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
Geographical location | 61 ° 28 ′ S , 55 ° 54 ′ W | |
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Highest elevation | 735 m |
Aspland Island is a small, rugged and mountainous rock island with a maximum height of 735 m in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 6 km west of Gibbs Island and 40 km southwest of Elephant Island . It belongs to the eastern archipelago of the South Shetland Islands called Islas Piloto Pardo by Chile .
The British navigator Edward Bransfield roughly mapped them on his Antarctic voyage between February and March 1820. Together with the islands later known as O'Brien Island and Eadie Island , they appeared on his map as O'Brien's Islands . In the maps of the British sealer captain George Powell († 1823) from 1822, the island described here is called Aspland's Island . It is probably named after the Unitarian Robert Aspland (1782–1845). The name used today goes back to participants in the British Discovery Investigations , who mapped the island between January and February 1937.
Web links
- Aspland Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Aspland Island on geographic.org (English)