Jonah Island
| Jonah Island | ||
|---|---|---|
| Waters | Hanusse Bay | |
| Archipelago | Bennett Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 54 ′ S , 67 ° 42 ′ W | |
|
||
Jona Island is a small island off the west coast of the Antarctic Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is one of the smaller of the Bennett Islands in Hanusse Bay and is 5 km north of the eastern end of Weertman Island .
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 American physicist Franco P. Jona (* 1922), who came from Italy and who made an exact determination of the elastic constant of an individual ice crystal in 1951 .
Web links
- Jona Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jona Island on geographic.org (English)