Peterson Island (Crystal Sound)
| Peterson Island | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| Archipelago | Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 22 ′ S , 66 ° 31 ′ W | |
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Peterson Island is an island off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. It belongs to the Adelaide and Biscoe Islands and is located southeast of Levy Island and west of the Bernal Islands in Crystal Sound .
Aerial photographs were taken during the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956 and 1957. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out measurements between 1958 and 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the island in 1960 after the American chemist Selmer Wilfred Peterson (1917-2004), who, together with Henri Arthur Levy (1913-2001) in 1957, used measurements of neutron scattering to locate hydrogen atoms in Ice cream had succeeded.
Web links
- Peterson Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)