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. They were named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Ukichiro Nakaya, a Japanese Professor of Physics from the Hokkaido University, who specialized in the field of investigating the structure of ice crystals and snowflakes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Nakaya Islands
- Type: Island
- Description: Island group in Graham Land, Antarctica
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Nakaya Islands” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Nakaya”
- Chinese: “中谷群島”
- Dutch: “Nakaya Islands”
- German: “Nakaya-Inseln”
- Japanese: “中谷諸島”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nakaya Islands”
- Spanish: “Nakaya, islotes”
- Swedish: “Nakaya (ö)”
- Swedish: “Nakaya Islands”
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