Scholander Island
| Scholander Island | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 22 ′ S , 66 ° 57 ′ W | |
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Scholander Island is an island in the Biscoe Islands archipelago off the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 2.5 km east of Watkins Island .
Aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition from 1956 to 1957 were used to map them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the Swedish biologist Per Fredrik Scholander (1905–1980), who had dealt with the metabolism under cold conditions.
Web links
- Scholander Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Scholander Island on geographic.org (English)