Adolph Islands
| Adolph Islands | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 19 ′ S , 67 ° 11 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Adolph Islands are a group of small islands and cliffs off the northwest coast of Watkins Island and part of the Biscoe Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula .
The islands were mapped using aerial photographs taken by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) from 1956 to 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the American physiologist Edward Frederick Adolph (1895-1986). As a professor of physiology at the University of Rochester from 1948 to 1960, he specialized in the reactions of the human body to cold.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Adolph Islands ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved January 18, 2015.
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 10 (English)