Bernal Islands

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The Bernal Islands are a group of four mainly snow-covered islands and a number of rocks lying in Crystal Sound, about 10 nautical miles (20 km) east of the south end of Lavoisier Island, Biscoe Islands. They were mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (1958–59) and from air photos obtained by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–48), and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for John D. Bernal, a British physicist, joint author with Sir Ralph Fowler of a classic paper on the structure of ice which suggested the location of the hydrogen atoms, in 1933.[1]

See also

  • List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

References

  1. ↑ "Bernal Islands". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-06-10. 

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Bernal Islands" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

Coordinates: 66°22′S 66°28′W / 66.367°S 66.467°W / -66.367; -66.467


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