Levy Island
| Levy Island | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| Archipelago | Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 19 ′ S , 66 ° 34 ′ W | |
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Levy Iceland is an isolated and covered island off the Loubet coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula It belongs to the Adelaide- and Biscoe Islands and lies 12 kilometers east of Gagge Point of Lavoisier Island in Crystal Sound .
Aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) and measurements of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey between 1958 and 1959 were used to map them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the US chemist Henri Arthur Levy (1913-2001), in 1957 together with Selmer Wilfred Peterson (1917-2004) by means of measurements for neutron scattering the localization of hydrogen atoms in ice had succeeded.
Web links
- Levy Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Levy Island on geographic.org (English)