Steinemann Island
| Steinemann Island | |
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| Location: | 66°51’58"S, 67°54’58"W |
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Steinemann Island lies off the north-east of Adelaide Island in the British Antarctic Territory, forming south-west entrance point of Buchanan Passage.
The island was photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition of 1947-48, and by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57. It was surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from "Detaille Island" in 1958.
The island is named in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area: specifically it is named after Samuel Steinemann (b.1923), a Swiss physicist who, starting in 1953, made laboratory investigations on the flow of single and polycrystalline ice and was Professor of Physics at the University of Lausanne from 1968.
Links
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Steinemann Island