Horvath Island
| Horvath Island | ||
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| Waters | Lewis Sound | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 19 ′ S , 67 ° 8 ′ W | |
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Horvath Island is a small island west of the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Biscoe Islands archipelago , it is north of Watkins Island in Lewis Sound .
The island was mapped using aerial photographs taken by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the American physician Stephen Michael Horvath (1911-2007), who dealt with the peripheral circulation in humans under extreme climatic conditions.
Web links
- Horvath Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Horvath Island on geographic.org (English)