Owston Islands is a group of small islands lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) west of Darbel Islands

Darbel Islands

Darbel Islands is a group of islands and rocks extending southwest from Cape Bellue for 5 nautical miles across the entrance to Darbel Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. Charted in 1930 by DI personnel on the Discovery II and named Marin Darbel Islands after the bay in which they were...

 in Crystal Sound

Crystal Sound

Crystal Sound is a sound between the southern part of the Biscoe Islands and the coast of Graham Land; northern limit Cape Evensen to Cape Leblond, southern limit Holdfast Point, Roux Island, Liard Island and Sillard Islands...

. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1958–59). Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for P. G. Owston

P. G. Owston

P. G. Owston, BSc, PhD, DSc was a British chemist and crystallographer for whom the Owston Islands in Antarctica are named. The Owston Islands lie within the region claimed by the United Kingdom , Argentina , and Chile...

, British crystallographer who has interpreted x-ray diffraction work on ice in terms of structure and movement of molecules.