Bedford Island
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Bedford Island is an island about 1 miles (1.6 km) long, lying at the south end of the Barcroft Islands
in the Biscoe Islands
. It was mapped from air photos taken by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–57), and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
for Thomas Bedford, an English physicist who specialized in the measurement of the physical environment of man.
Barcroft Islands
The Barcroft Islands are a group of small islands and rocks about in extent, lying close south of Watkins Island, Biscoe Islands. They were mapped from air photos by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition , and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Sir Joseph...
in the Biscoe Islands
Biscoe Islands
Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud, Rabot, Lavoisier and Watkins, lying parallel to the W coast of Graham Land and extending some in a NE–SW direction...
. It was mapped from air photos taken by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–57), and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...
for Thomas Bedford, an English physicist who specialized in the measurement of the physical environment of man.