Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Brisbane Heights

(Coronation Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 60° 36' S 45° 37' 59" W
ice-covered area of W central Coronation Island, rising to c. 920m between Worswick Hill and Beaufoy Ridge, were roughly surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Signy in 1948-49 and named Brisbane Plateau, after Capt. Matthew Brisbane (?1787-1833), Master of the cutter Beaufoy, who sailed with Weddell, 1822-24, and took part in the first survey of the S coasts of the South Orkney Islands (q.v.) in January 1823; resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Signy in 1956 and renamed Brisbane Heights.