Kidd Islands
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Kidd Islands () is a small group of islands within Darbel Bay, lying just south of Darbel Islands off the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) in 1956-57. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for D.A. Kidd, British physicist who in 1888, with J.C. McConnel, made pioneer tests of the deformation of ice single crystals.
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