Brockhamp Islands

Brockhamp Island

Brockhamp Island Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	67°17′S 67°56′W / 67.283°S 67.933°W / -67.283; -67.933Coordinates: 67°17′S 67°56′W / 67.283°S 67.933°W / -67.283; -67.933
Administration
None
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

The Brockhamp Islands are two small islands in Laubeuf Fjord, lying 6 kilometres (3 nmi) southwest of Mothes Point, Adelaide Island. They were mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition air photos, 1947–48, and FIDS surveys, 1948–50. They were named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Bernhard Brockhamp, a German glaciologist who, with H. Mothes, made the first seismic soundings of a glacier, in Austria in 1926.^[1]

See also

• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References

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