Megaw Island [SEP] continent
Megaw Island
Megaw Island () is the easternmost of the Bennett Islands in Hanusse Bay, Antarctica. 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). The island was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Irish physicist Helen Megaw, who in 1934 made accurate measurements of the cell dimensions of ice.
See also.
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
Megaw
Megaw is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Eric Megaw (1908 – 1956) Irish Engineer
- Helen Megaw (1907–2002), Irish crystallographer
- John Megaw (1909–1997), British judge and rugby union player
- Peter Megaw (1910–2006), Irish architectural historian and archaeologist
- Robert Megaw (1869–1947), Northern Irish barrister and politician
- Vincent Megaw (born 1934), Australian archaeologist, also his wife Ruth Megaw
See also.
- Megaw Island