McConnel Islands
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| Waters | Darbel Bay | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 29 ′ S , 65 ° 49 ′ W | |
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The McConnel Islands are a group of islands off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are in Darbel Bay , southeast of the Kidd Islands .
Aerial photographs were taken during the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the British physicist James Cannan McConnel (1860–1890), a pioneer in deformation analysis of ice between 1881 and 1890.
Web links
- McConnel Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McConnel Islands on geographic.org (English)