Anvers Island or Antwerp Island or Antwerpen Island or Isla Amberes is a high, mountainous island 61 km (38 miles) long, the largest in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It lies south-west of Brabant Island at the south-western end of the group. Cormorant Island, an Important Bird Area, lies 1 km off the south coast. The island was discovered by John Biscoe in 1832 and named in 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache after the province of Antwerp in Belgium.
Read more about Anvers Island: Palmer Station, The Former Station of The British Antarctic Survey, Ship Aground., D'Abnour Bay, Cultural References
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