Pauling Islands
| Pauling Islands | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 32 ′ S , 66 ° 58 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Pauling Islands are a group of islands off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are 5 km southeast of the Barcroft Islands 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 on September 23, 1960 after the American chemist and Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling (1901-1994), who in 1935 had developed a theory of the crystal structure of ice .
Web links
- Pauling Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pauling Islands on geographic.org (English)