Cleft Island
| Cleft Island | ||
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| Waters | Prydz Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 21 ′ S , 75 ° 38 ′ E | |
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Cleft Island (from English cleft 'gap, crack' ; Norwegian Lorten , translated dog poop ) is a small island in the southern section of Prydz Bay on the coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is located north of the Bølingen archipelago and 4 km southeast of Lichen Island .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them descriptively, mapped them using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Australian scientists visited them on February 18, 1966 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . They named it after the 6 m wide natural canal that runs through the island.
Web links
- Cleft Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cleft Island on geographic.org (English)