Brown Island
Brown Island is a small, brown, almost snow-free island in the southeastern part of the Wauwermans Islands, 4 km southwest of Wednesday Island, in the Wilhelm Archipelago.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Heed Rock and Wednesday Island.
Heed Rock
Islet
Heed Rock is a very small rock, awash at high water and virtually hidden from sight, lying 1 nautical mile south of Brown Island in the Wauwermans Islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica.
Wednesday Island
Island
Wednesday Island is an island 1 nautical mile long, at the east end of Wauwermans Islands in the north part of Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica. The Wauwermans Islands were discovered by the German expedition under Eduard Dallmann, 1873–74, and were later roughly mapped by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897–99, and the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, 1903–05.
Lobel Island
Islet
Lobel Island is an island nearly 1 nautical mile long, laying 2 nautical miles southwest of Brown Island in the Wauwermans Islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica. Lobel Island is situated 3 km southwest of Brown Island.
Brown Island
- Type: Islet
- Description: Island in Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-64.93869° or 64° 56′ 19″ southLongitude
-63.7425° or 63° 44′ 33″ westOpen location code
377R3765+G2OpenStreetMap ID
way 224776776OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Swedish—“Brown Island” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “ব্রাউন দ্বীপ”
- Cebuano: “Pardas”
- Chinese: “布朗島”
- Dutch: “Brown Island”
- German: “Brown Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brown Island”
- Spanish: “Brown, Isla”
- Spanish: “Pardas, islas”
- Swedish: “Brown Island, Antarktis”
- Swedish: “Pardas”
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