Dennison Reef
| Dennison Reef | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 29 ′ S , 66 ° 50 ′ W | |
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The Dennison Reef is a reef off the Loubet coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . In Crystal Sound , it is between Shull Rocks and the Pauling Islands at the southern end of the Biscoe Islands .
Aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) and surveys carried out from 1958 to 1959 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey were used to map it. The UK Antarctic Place Names Committee named the reef on September 23, 1960 after the British-American physicist David Mathias Dennison (1900-1976), whose X-ray diffraction technique he developed was used to determine the crystal structure of ice .
Web links
- Dennison Reef in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dennison Reef on geographic.org (English)