Nakaya Islands
| Nakaya Islands | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 27 ′ S , 66 ° 13 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Nakaya Islands are a small group of islands off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are 16 km southeast of Cape Rey in Crystal Sound .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out from 1958 to 1959 was used to map it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the group in 1960 after the Japanese physicist Ukichiro Nakaya (1900–1962), who had studied the structure and properties of ice and snow crystals.
Web links
- Nakaya Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nakaya Islands on geographic.org (English)