It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955 .
It was named by the UK Antarctic Place - Names Committee after Sydney Chapman , British geophysicist , President of the Commission for the International Geophysical Year , 1957 -- 58 .
It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955 , and named by the UK Antarctic Place - Names Committee after Sydney Chapman , British geophysicist , President of the Commission for the International Geophysical Year , 1957 -- 58 .