Weertman Island
| Weertman Island | ||
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| Waters | Hanusse Bay | |
| Archipelago | Bennett Islands ( Adelaide and Biscoe Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 58 ′ S , 67 ° 45 ′ W | |
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Weertman Island is an island off the Loubet coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the largest and southernmost of the Bennett Islands in Hanusse Bay .
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 1960 after the US geophysicist Johannes Weertman (1925-2018), who in 1951 had put forward a theory on glacier dynamics .
Web links
- Weertman Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Weertman Island on geographic.org (English)