Pfaff Island
| Pfaff Island | ||
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| Waters | Hanusse Bay | |
| Archipelago | Bennett Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 53 ′ S , 67 ° 44 ′ W | |
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Pfaff Island is a small island in the Bennett Islands group off the Loubet coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in Hanusse Bay immediately south of Gränicher Island .
Aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) and the British Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957) were used to map them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1965 after the German geologist Friedrich Pfaff (1825–1886), who carried out pioneering research into the deformability of ice in Switzerland between 1874 and 1875 .
Web links
- Pfaff Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pfaff Island on geographic.org (English)