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 Location of Brabant Island (in red) | |
  Brabant Island Location in Antarctica | |
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| Location | Antarctica |
| Coordinates | 64°15′S62°20′W / 64.250°S 62.333°W /-64.250; -62.333 |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago |
| Area | 1,770 km2 (680 sq mi) |
| Length | 59 km (36.7 mi) |
| Width | 30 km (19 mi) |
| Highest elevation | 2,520 m (8270 ft) |
| Highest point | Mount Parry |
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| Administered under theAntarctic Treaty System | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | Uninhabited |
Brabant Island is the second largestisland of thePalmer Archipelago within theBritish Antarctic Territory, lying betweenAnvers Island andLiège Island. Brabant Island is 59 km (37 mi) long north-south, 30 km (19 mi) wide, and rises to 2,520 m (8,268 ft) inMount Parry. The interior of the island is occupied by two mountain ranges,Solvay Mountains (Cook Summit, 1590 m) in its southern part andStribog Mountains (summit Mount Parry) in its central and northern parts.
It was named by theBelgian Antarctic Expedition (1897–1899) underAdrien de Gerlache, who named it after theBelgianProvince of Brabant, in recognition of the support given to the expedition by its citizens.[1]
A paper summarizing the Joint Services expedition of 1984–1985 describes the island as "notoriously inhospitable" and states that there is evidence for only six visits between the discovery in 1898 and 1984.[2] Members of the expedition overwintered there in 1984–1985, and made the first ascent ofMount Parry.
On 6 February 2024, for the first time since 2017,BritishRoyal Navy personnel fromHMS Protector landed on the island in an effort to clear three tonnes of waste and abandoned equipment from the 1980s antarctic expedition.[3]
The Brabant IslandTectonic Block includes up to 2000 m ofbasaltic-andesiticlavas andvolcaniclastics, possibly corresponding to theLower Cretaceous Antarctic Peninsula VolcanicGroup of theDanco Coast. This group isintruded by agranodioritesill andEarly Eocenehypabyssaldykes.Late Tertiary toPleistocene basaltic lavasuncomformably overlay this complex.[4]
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