Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Steinemann Island

(Adelaide Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 66° 51' 58" S 67° 54' 58" W
off NE Adelaide Island, forming SW entrance point of Buchanan Passage, was photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947-48, and by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Detaille Island' in 1958; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after Samuel Steinemann (b.1923), Swiss physicist who, starting in 1953, made laboratory investigations on the flow of single and polycrystalline ice; Professor of Physics, University of Lausanne, from 1968.