Bernal Islands

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,[1] a British physicist, joint author with Sir Ralph Fowler of a classic 1933 paper on the structure of ice which suggested the location of the hydrogen atoms,[2] known as the ice rules.

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References

  1. ↑ "Bernal Islands". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
  2. ↑ Bernal, J. D.; Fowler, R. H. (1 January 1933). "A Theory of Water and Ionic Solution, with Particular Reference to Hydrogen and Hydroxyl Ions". The Journal of Chemical Physics 1 (8): 515. Bibcode:1933JChPh...1..515B. doi:10.1063/1.1749327.

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


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