Abbott Island

Abbott Island (64°6′S, 62°8′W) is an island lying 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Davis Island in the south part of Bouquet Bay, off the northeast side of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago. Roughly charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, 1903-05. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos in 1959. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Maude Abbott (1869-1940), American authority on congenital heart disease. Her classification of this subject is the basis of modern investigation and treatment.

See also

• List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

This article incorporates text from Abbott Island, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.