Malus Island

Malus Island
Location of Stresher Peninsula on Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula
Malus Island
Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location Antarctica
Coordinates 66°14′S 65°45′W / 66.233°S 65.750°W / -66.233; -65.750Coordinates: 66°14′S 65°45′W / 66.233°S 65.750°W / -66.233; -65.750
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population Uninhabited

Malus Island is an island 8 kilometres (4.5 nmi) south of Cape Evensen, lying in Auvert Bay off the northwest coast of Stresher Peninsula, in Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for French physicist Étienne-Louis Malus, who discovered the polarization of light by reflection, a fact subsequently used in the design of snow goggles.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Malus Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-07-30.

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