Megaw Island
| Megaw Island | ||
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| Waters | Hanusse Bay | |
| Archipelago | Bennett Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 54 ′ S , 67 ° 35 ′ W | |
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Megaw Island is the easternmost of the Bennett Islands in Hanusse Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula .
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 it in 1960 after the British physicist Helen Dick Megaw (1907-2002), who in 1934 succeeded in accurately determining the size of a unit in the crystal lattice of ice .
Web links
- Megaw Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Megaw Island on geographic.org (English)