Anvers Island

It 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.There is a small science outpost called Palmer Station on the south end of Anvers island since the late 1960s; it is the smallest and farthest north of three the U.S. has on the continent.The first Palmer station was built in 1965 on the small and nearby Amsler island, and it was left standing till the 1990s.Its hut was loaned to the U.S. Government on July 2, 1963, which converted it into a biological laboratory in January 1965 for use by American scientists at the nearby Palmer Station.[4] Anvers Island was the scene of the protagonist Grim Fiddle's "kingdom" and his later imprisonment in John Calvin Batchelor's novel The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica.
Palmer Station
Neumayer Channel shown here, separates Anvers Island from Wiencke Island and Doumer Island to the east
Anvers Island's Mount Francis (elevation 2 760 m)
AntarcticaPalmer ArchipelagoMount FrançaisAntarctic Treaty SystemislandJohn BiscoeBelgian Antarctic ExpeditionAdrien de GerlacheAntwerpBelgiumsouth-westBrabant Islandsouth-westernSouthwest Anvers Island and Palmer BasinAntarctic Specially Managed AreaCormorant IslandImportant Bird AreaPalmer StationAntarctica'sAntarctic CircleNathaniel B. PalmerAmsler islandBritish Antarctic SurveyUS Antarctic ProgramLindblad ExplorerBuenos AiresKristiansandNorwayARA Bahía ParaísoCape GronlandFrench Antarctic ExpeditionJ.B. CharcotTectonic BlockMelchior Islandsstrike-slipVolcanicGranitedioritetonaliteplutonsintrusionTertiaryJohn Calvin Batchelor'sdystopianfuture worldNorse mythologyFélicie PointHippolyte PointLion SoundZeus RidgeComposite Antarctic GazetteerWayback MachineYouTubeWest AntarcticaAntarctic PeninsulaGraham LandPalmer LandEllsworth LandEnglish CoastBryan CoastEights CoastKing Edward VII LandShirase CoastMarie Byrd LandWalgreen CoastBakutis CoastHobbs CoastRuppert CoastSaunders CoastQueen Elizabeth LandAbbot Ice ShelfFilchner–Ronne Ice ShelfGetz Ice ShelfLarsen Ice ShelfRoss Ice ShelfSulzberger Ice ShelfAmundsen SeaDean IslandGrant IslandSiple IslandBellingshausen SeaAdelaide IslandAlexander IslandLatady IslandRothschild IslandSherman IslandSmyley IslandSpaatz IslandThurston IslandRoss SeaRoss IslandScotia SeaSouthern OceanCharcot IslandCoronation IslandD'Urville IslandElephant IslandJoinville IslandKing George IslandLivingston IslandRenaud IslandWeddell SeaJames Ross IslandHearst Island