Owston Islands
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 24 ′ S , 66 ° 5 ′ W | |
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The Owston Islands are a group of small islands off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In Crystal Sound they are located 1.5 km west of the Darbel Islands before the entrance to Darbel Bay .
Measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey between 1958 and 1959 were used to map them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1959 after the British crystallographer Philip George Owston (1921-2001), who first used X-ray diffraction to analyze structures and molecular movements in ice.
Web links
- Owston Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Owston Islands on geographic.org (English)