Fowler Islands
| Fowler Islands | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 24 ′ S , 66 ° 24 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Fowler Islands are a group of small islands off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They belong to the Biscoe Islands archipelago and are located in the Crystal Sound between the Bernal and Bragg Islands .
They were mapped on the basis of surveys carried out by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey between 1958 and 1959, as well as aerial photographs by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) and the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957) . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the British physicist Ralph Howard Fowler (1889-1944), who in 1933 together with John Desmond Bernal wrote a treatise on the crystal structure of ice and the location of the hydrogen atom .
Web links
- Fowler Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fowler Islands on geographic.org (English)