Brown Island (Antarctica)
| Brown Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Wauwermans Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 58 ′ S , 63 ° 46 ′ W | |
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Brown Island is a small, brown and almost snow-free island in the Wilhelm Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the southeastern part of the group of Wauwermans Islands , it is 3 km southwest of Wednesday Island .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill, mapped and named them. It is named after its brownish color, which sets it apart from the neighboring snow-covered islands.
Web links
- Brown Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brown Island on geographic.org