Jona Island

Jona Island

Jona Island Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	66°55′S 67°42′W / 66.917°S 67.700°W / -66.917; -67.700Coordinates: 66°55′S 67°42′W / 66.917°S 67.700°W / -66.917; -67.700
Administration
None
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

Jona Island is one of the smaller of the Bennett Islands, lying in Hanusse Bay 6 kilometres (3 nmi) north of the eastern end of Weertman Island. It was mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–48) and the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–57). It was named by UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Franco P. Jona, an American (formerly Italian) physicist who in 1951 made an accurate determination of the elastic constant of a single ice crystal.^[1]

See also

• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References

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