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Island in Antarctica

Levy Island
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Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates66°20′S 66°35′W / 66.333°S 66.583°W / -66.333; -66.583
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

Levy Island is an isolated snow-covered island in Crystal Sound, Antarctica, about 14 km (7.5 nmi) east of Gagge Point, Lavoisier Island. It was mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–48) and surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (1958–59). The island was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Henri A. Levy, an American physical chemist who, with S.W. Peterson, determined the location of the hydrogen atoms in ice by neutron diffraction, in 1957.

See also

References

  1. "Levy Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
  2. Peterson, S. W.; Levy, H. A. (1957). "A single-crystal neutron diffraction study of heavy ice" (PDF). Acta Crystallographica. 10: 70. doi:10.1107/S0365110X5700016X.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Levy Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.


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