Gränicher Island

Gränicher Island

Gränicher Island Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	66°53′S 67°43′W / 66.883°S 67.717°W / -66.883; -67.717Coordinates: 66°53′S 67°43′W / 66.883°S 67.717°W / -66.883; -67.717
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Gränicher Island is a small island which is the northernmost of the Bennett Islands in Hanusse Bay, Antarctica. It was mapped from air photos obtained by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–48) and the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–57). It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for , a Swiss physicist who from 1954 made important investigations of the electrical and mechanical properties of ice in relation to its molecular structure.^[1]

See also[]

• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References[]

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Gränicher Island". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)

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