Lippmann Islands
Lippmann Islands | ||
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Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
Geographical location | 65 ° 30 ′ S , 64 ° 25 ′ W | |
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The Lippmann Islands are a group of small islands off the Graham Coast in the west of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are distributed over a length of 3 km immediately northwest of Lahille Island .
They were discovered by participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Charcot named it after the French physicist and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Lippmann (1845–1921) as Île Lippmann , because he had mistakenly thought it was a single island. Aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition from 1956 to 1957 and measurements of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1958 uncovered this error.
Web links
- Lippmann Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lippmann Islands on geographic.org (English)