Hovdevika
| Hovdevika | ||
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Land mass | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 76 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| width | 4 km | |
| depth | 4 km | |
| Islands | Reel Island | |
The Hovdevika (Norwegian for hill bay , in Australia Amanda Bay ) is a small bay on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . In Prydz Bay it is east of the Flatnes . At the head of the bay is the Amanda Rookery , a breeding colony of emperor penguins .
Norwegian cartographers, who named it descriptively, mapped the bay on the basis of aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named her on April 29, 1957 after the first name of the daughter of Peter Hugh Clemence (* 1925), squadron leader of the Royal Australian Air Force for Antarctic flights from Mawson Station in the same year.
Web links
- Hovde Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hovde Cove on geographic.org (English)