Wollan Island
| Wollan Island | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 24 ′ S , 66 ° 37 ′ W | |
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Wollan Iceland is a dome-shaped and snow-covered island with striking rock outcroppings on the northwest side before the Loubet coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . In Crystal Sound , it is 1.5 km north of Davidson Island .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out from 1958 to 1959 was used to map it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the island on September 23, 1960 after the US physicist Ernest Omar Wollan (1902-1984), who studied the structure of ice using neutron scattering .
Web links
- Wollan Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wollan Island on geographic.org (English)