Pampa Island

Pampa Island ( Spanish Isla Pampa , in the United Kingdom Hunt Island ) is a 2.5 km long and up to 475 m high island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located off the east coast of the Brabant Island , from which it is separated by the Pampa Passage .

Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery made the first measurements of the island. Scientists from an Argentine Antarctic expedition carried out from 1947 to 1948 gave it its name, named after the research vessel Pampa . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated this name into English in 1965. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the island in 1957 after the British hydrograph Frank William Hunt (* 1922) of the Royal Navy , who worked for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 1951 to 1952 in the Bransfield Strait and in the Palmer Archipelago.

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