Brattøy
| Brattøy | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation Lake , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 57 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 800 m | |
| width | 800 m | |
Brattøy (English: Abrupt Island ) is an island about 800 m in diameter, which is about 3 km east of Langøy and near the east side of the Øygarden archipelago and Edward VIII Bay off the coast of the Antarctic Kemplands .
Norwegian cartographers recorded it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . Her "sudden" discovery gave her her name. After a survey carried out by the scientists of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1954, the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) translated the Norwegian name into English .
Web links
- Abruptly Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Abrupt Island on geographic.org (English)