Brooklyn Island

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Brooklyn Island
photographed by Frederick Cook on the Belgica expedition (1897–1899)
photographed by Frederick Cook on the Belgica expedition (1897–1899)
Waters Wilhelmina Bay
Geographical location 64 ° 38 '14 "  S , 62 ° 3' 9"  W Coordinates: 64 ° 38 '14 "  S , 62 ° 3' 9"  W
Brooklyn Island (Antarctic Peninsula)
Brooklyn Island
length 4 km
width 2.5 km

The Brooklyn Island ( French Île Brooklyn ) is a 4 km long and 2.5 km wide island off the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 1.8 km southeast of Nansen Island in the eastern section of Wilhelmina Bay . It is separated from the mainland by the Plata Passage .

Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery discovered the island. He named it after the New York borough of Brooklyn , home of the American expedition doctor Frederick Cook (1865-1940).

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