Aspland Island

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Aspland Island
Waters Southern ocean
Archipelago South Shetland Islands
Geographical location 61 ° 28 ′  S , 55 ° 54 ′  W Coordinates: 61 ° 28 ′  S , 55 ° 54 ′  W
Aspland Island (South Shetland Islands)
Aspland Island
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.

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