Foote Islands
| Foote Islands | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 12 ′ S , 66 ° 10 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Foote Islands are a small group of snow-covered islands and a few cliffs off the Graham Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Crystal Sound they are 20 km southeast of Cape Leblond on Lavoisier Island .
Aerial photographs of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) and surveys carried out by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) between 1958 and 1959 were used to map them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1960 after Brian Leonard Hodson Foote (1926-2002), who worked for the FIDS in 1957 as a radio technician at Arthur Harbor and in 1958 as a geodesist on Detaille Island and was involved in surveys in the Crystal Sound area was.
Web links
- Foote Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Foote Islands on geographic.org (English)