Erasmus Darwin | Desiderius Erasmus | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Thomas Bartholin | Rasmus Bartholin | Erasmus Hall High School | Erasmus D. Keyes | Erasmus Student Network | Erasmus D. Campbell | Caspar Bartholin the Elder | Theodore Erasmus Hilgard | Paul Erasmus | Erasmus Research Institute of Management | Erasmus Reinhold | Erasmus Ransford Tawiah Madjitey | Erasmus Montanus | Erasmus Haworth | Erasmus Gower | Caspar Bartholin the Younger | Caspar Bartholin |
It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958 for Erasmus Bartholin, of Copenhagen, whose De Figura Nivis Dissertatio, 1661, includes the earliest known scientific description of snow crystals.