Bennett Islands

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Bennett Islands

The Bennett Islands are a small, uninhabited group of islands on the southwest side of Liard Island in Hanusse Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. They stretch about 10 kilometers (6 miles) in a southwest direction.

The islands were seen from the air in February 1937 by the British Graham Land Expedition led by John Rymill. In 1954, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them after Arthur G. Bennett, who served as the British representative on whaling in the South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands from 1913 to 1927, and who was the acting government naturalist in the Falkland Islands from 1924 to 1938.

The Bennett Islands are governed under the Antarctic Treaty System and have no permanent population.