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Wollan Island
Wollan
Island
is a dome-shaped,
ice-capped
island
with
conspicuous
rock
exposures
on its
northwest
side,
lying
1
nautical mile
north
of
Davidson Island
in
Crystal Sound
. Mapped from
surveys
by
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
. Named by
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
for Ernest O. Wollan, American
physicist
who used
neutron diffraction
to study the
structure
of
ice
.