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Brewster Island
Brewster Island
is a
small island
lying
northeast
of
Danco Island
in
Errera Channel
, off the
west coast
of
Graham Land
. It was shown on an
Argentine government
chart of 1950, and named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
in
1960
for
Sir David Brewster
, Scottish
natural philosopher
who in 1844
improved
the
mirror stereoscope
invented
by
Sir Charles Wheatstone
by substituting prisms.