
Adolph Islands
(Watkins Island)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 66° 19' 25" S 67° 11' 24" W
off NW coast of Watkins Island, Biscoe Islands, Loubet Coast, were photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of cold climate physiology grouped in the area, named after Edward Frederick Adolph (b. 1895), American physiologist specializing in the reactions of the human body to cold; Professor of Physiology, University of Rochester, NY, 1948-60.