Lecointe Island

Lecointe Island

Location of Brabant Island
Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	64°14′38.93″S 62°3′10.23″W / 64.2441472°S 62.0528417°W / -64.2441472; -62.0528417Coordinates: 64°14′38.93″S 62°3′10.23″W / 64.2441472°S 62.0528417°W / -64.2441472; -62.0528417
Archipelago	Palmer Archipelago
Length	7.27 km (4.517 mi)
Width	2.2 km (1.37 mi)
Highest elevation	700 m (2,300 ft)
Country
None
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

Lecointe Island is an elongated island, 7.27 km (4.52 mi) long between Cape Kaiser and Hvarchil Point, 2.2 km (1.4 mi) wide and 700 m (2,300 ft) high, separated from the east coast of Brabant Island by Pampa Passage, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.^[1]

The island was first roughly surveyed by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, which gave the name Cape Kaiser to its northern extremity. The island was surveyed and photographed by several British expeditions, 1955–58, and was named by them for Georges Lecointe, second-in-command and surveyor of the Belgian expedition which was responsible for the first survey of Gerlache Strait.

Maps

• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
• Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
• Territorial claims in Antarctica

References

Brabant Island from northeast, with Anvers Island (on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background; Lecointe Island is the larger of the two islands just left of Brabant.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Lecointe Island" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).