Bølingen
| Bølingen | ||
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 28 ′ S , 75 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | unknown | |
| Total land area | unknown | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Bølingen ( Norwegian for herd ) is a group of small islands off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . They are located just off the north side of the Publications Ice Shelf in the southeastern part of Prydz Bay . The group consists of the Indre Bølingen and the Ytre Bølingen .
They were discovered and roughly mapped in February 1935 by the Norwegian Klarius Mikkelsen (1887 - unknown), captain of the whaling ship Torlyn . Norwegian cartographers, who also named them, mapped them in detail using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 .
Web links
- Bølingen Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bølingen Islands on geographic.org (English)