Wittmann Island

Wittmann Island
Waters	Grandidier Canal
Archipelago	Biscoe Islands
Geographical location	65 ° 42 ′  S , 65 ° 53 ′  W Coordinates: 65 ° 42 ′  S , 65 ° 53 ′  W

Wittmann Island is an island off the west of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Biscoe Islands archipelago , it is 3 km west-southwest of Nusser Island in front of the entrance to Zubov Bay on Renaud Island .

The island was first shown on an Argentine map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1959 after the American oceanographer Walter I. Wittmann (1918-1992), whose main focus was sea ​​ice research .

Web links

• Wittmann Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Wittmann Island on geographic.org (English)