Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Low Island

(South Shetland Islands)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 63° 18' 30" S 62° 7' 4" W
SW-most of the South Shetland Islands, was roughly charted by nineteenth-century sealers from 1820 onwards; probably named descriptively, or possibly after Capt. Edward Low, Master of the American sealing ship Esther (Esther Harbour, q.v.). Landings were made on the island by Burdick and Davis on 2 February 1821. The position of the island was determined by Foster from a position E of Cape Possession and from Deception Island in January-March 1829. The island was recharted by Discovery Investigations, 1930-31. The island was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956.