Palosuo Islands
| Palosuo Islands | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 38 ′ S , 66 ° 5 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Palosuo Islands are a group of small islands and reef rocks west of the Antarctic Peninsula . They belong to the Biscoe Islands archipelago and are 2.5 km north of Maurstad Point off the west side of Renaud Island .
The islands are first shown on an Argentine map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the Finnish oceanographer Erkki Palosuo (1912-2007), whose main research focus was the formation of sea ice .
Web links
- Palosuo Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Palosuo Islands on geographic.org (English)