Brian Island
| Brian Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Archipelago | Debenham Islands | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 8 ′ S , 67 ° 7 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Brian Island is the westernmost of the Debenham Islands in Marguerite Bay on the Fallières coast of West Antarctic Graham Land .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1936) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill carried out a survey of the island in 1936. Rymill named it after Herbert Brian Debenham (* 1923), the second son of the Australian geologist and polar explorer Frank Debenham .
Web links
- Brian Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brian Island on geographic.org (English)