Pontoon Island
| Pontoon Island | ||
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| Waters | Bay of Flanders | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 6 ′ S , 63 ° 5 ′ W | |
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Ponton Island is a small island off the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 2.5 km southeast of the Moureaux Islands near the head of the Flanders Bay .
On an Argentine map from 1954 it is recorded under the name Islote Solitario (Spanish for lonely island ). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided to rename it in 1960 to avoid confusion with the island of the same name in the group of Guébriant Islands . The new namesake is the Scottish inventor Mungo Ponton (1802–1880), who discovered the sensitivity of potassium dichromate to light in 1839 , an important milestone in the history of analog photography .
Web links
- Ponton Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ponton Island on geographic.org (English)