Nakaya Islands

The Nakaya Islands are a small group of islands in Crystal Sound, about 18 km northeast of Cape Rey, Graham Land in Antarctica.

[1] They were named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Ukichiro Nakaya (1900–62), a Japanese Professor of Physics from the Hokkaido University, who specialized in the field of investigating the structure of ice crystals and snowflakes.

[2] Various flora and fauna live around the islands such as penguins, krill, Petrels and Mosses.

[3] This article incorporates public domain material from "Nakaya Islands".

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Ukichiro Nakaya after whom the islands are named