Owston Islands

The Owston Islands are a group of small islands lying one nautical mile west of the Darbel Islands in Crystal Sound off the Loubet Coast of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory.

The islands were photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition of 1956-1957, and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from "Detaille Island" in 1958-1959, which permitted detailed mapping.

The islands are named in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area: this group is named after Philip George Owston (b.1921), a British crystallographer who interpreted X-ray diffraction work on ice in terms of the structure and movement of molecules.

Location

• Location map: 66°23’43"S, 66°5’3"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Owston Islands