Gränicher Island
| Gränicher Island | ||
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| Waters | Hanusse Bay | |
| Archipelago | Bennett Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 53 ′ S , 67 ° 43 ′ W | |
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Gränicher Island is a small island off the west coast of the Antarctic Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the northernmost of the Bennett Islands in Hanusse Bay .
Aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) and the British Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957) were used to map them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the Swiss physicist Walter Hans Heini Gränicher (1924-2004), who in 1954 had gathered important knowledge about the electrical and mechanical properties of ice in relation to its molecular structure.
Web links
- Gränicher Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gränicher Island on geographic.org (English)