Weertman Island

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Weertman Island is the largest of the Bennett Islands, (q.v,) Hanusse Bay, Loubet Coast, was called Isla Runcumilla by C.A.E. 1947 after a Chilean submarine, (Chile. D.N.H. chart LII, 1947; I.H.A, 1974, p.44,) or Islote Susini by A.A.E, probably after a member of the expedition (Argentina. M.M, 1957a, p.10;) surveyed by F.I.D.S. from "Detaille Island," 1956-59; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named Weertman Island after Johannes Weertman, (born in.; 1925,) American metallurgist who proposed a theory to explain the sliding of glaciers on their beds & who has made important contributions to the theory of glacier flow since 1956; Professor of Materials Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, the Ill., from 1960, or (A.P.C., 1960, p.8; BA, 1961, p.190; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/10, 1-DOS 1979.)