Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Ponton Island

(Flandres Bay)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 65° 6' 28" S 63° 5' 13" W
near head of Flandres Bay, Danco Coast, E of Moureaux Islands, was roughly charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903-05. The island was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of photography grouped in this area, named after Mungo Ponton (1802-80), inventor who, in 1839, discovered that potassium bichromate spread on paper was light-sensitive, an important landmark in the development of photography.