Mugge Island
| Mugge Island | ||
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| Waters | Hanusse Bay | |
| Archipelago | Bennett Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 56 ′ S , 67 ° 48 ′ W | |
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Mügge Island is an island off the Loubet coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Bennett Islands group , it is 2.5 km north of the western 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 them in 1960 after the German mineralogist Johannes Otto Conrad Mügge (1858-1932), who had pioneered the deformability of ice in 1895 .
Web links
- Mügge Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mügge Island on geographic.org (English)