Kidd Islands

Kidd Islands
Kidd Islands is located in Antarctica
Kidd Islands
Kidd Islands
Location in Antarctica
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates66°27′S 65°59′W / 66.450°S 65.983°W / -66.450; -65.983
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

The Kidd Islands are a small group of islands within Darbel Bay, lying just south of the Darbel Islands off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. They were photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956–57, and were named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for D.A. Kidd,[1] a British physicist who in 1888, with J.C. McConnel, made pioneer tests of the deformation of ice single crystals.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference gnis was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ McConnel, James C.; Kidd, Dudley A. (1888). "On the Plasticity of Glacier and other Ice". Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 44 (266–272): 331–367. doi:10.1098/rspl.1888.0049.