Malus Island
| Malus Island | ||
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| Waters | Auvert Bay | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 14 ′ S , 65 ° 44 ′ W | |
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Malus Island is an island off the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In Auvert Bay it is 7 km south of Cape Evensen .
Participants of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1960 after the French physicist Étienne Louis Malus (1775-1812), who in 1809 discovered the ability of light to polarize , which was later used to improve snow goggles .
Web links
- Malus Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Malus Island on geographic.org (English)