Flat Islands
| Flat Islands | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 36 ′ S , 62 ° 49 ′ E | |
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| Main island | Béchervaise Island | |
The Flat Islands (basically translated from English Flat Islands ) are a small island chain length of 4 km before the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands . They lie with a northeast-southwest orientation 3 km southwest of Welch Island in the eastern part of Holme Bay and are separated from the mainland coast by the Kista Strait .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . They named a group of islands at the southern end of the chain as Flatøyholmane . After measurements by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions , the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) transferred the name to the entire island chain and translated it into English.
Web links
- Flat Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flat Islands on geographic.org (English)