Bernal Islands
| Bernal Islands | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 22 ′ S , 66 ° 26 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | > 4 | |
The Bernal Islands are a group of four mainly snow-capped islands and some reef rocks in the Biscoe Islands archipelago off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Crystal Sound they are about 16 km east of the southern end of Lavoisier Island .
They were mapped on the basis of measurements carried out by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey between 1958 and 1959, as well as using aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1960 after the British physicist John Desmond Bernal (1901-1971), who in 1933 had written a treatise on the crystal structure of ice and the location of the hydrogen atom together with Ralph Howard Fowler .
Web links
- Bernal Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bernal Islands on geographic.org (English)