Flatvær
| Flatvær | ||
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| Waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 1 ′ S , 39 ° 33 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 8th | |
| Main island | Ongul Island | |
| Total land area | unknown | |
Flatvær (translated from Norwegian Flat Islands; Japanese オ ン グ ル 諸島 Ongul-shotō, Kunrei system Ongul Syotô ) are a group of small islands off the Prince Harald coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . They are on the east side of the entrance to Lützow-Holm-Bucht . The largest island in the group is Ongul Island . Other islands are Utholmen , Meholmen , Nesøya , Teøyane and East Ongul Island .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them descriptively, mapped them using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 .
Web links
- Flatvær Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flatvær Islands on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ongul Syotô in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed January 18, 2018