Brown Island is a small, brown, almost snow-free island in the southeastern part of the
Wauwermans Islands, southwest of
Wednesday Island
Wednesday Island is an island 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 ro ...
, in the
Wilhelm Archipelago. It was charted by the
British Graham Land Expedition under
John Rymill, 1934–37, and so named because its brown color distinguished it from adjacent snow-capped islands.
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See also
* List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
References
Islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago
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