Fleinøya
| Fleinøya | ||
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| Waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 45 ′ S , 39 ° 5 ′ E | |
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The Fleinøya ( roughly translated from Norwegian blank island ) is a small island off the Prince Harald coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the southeastern part of the Lützow-Holm Bay , it is 600 m north of the Berrodden headland .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them as two islands based on aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 and named the larger of them. Scientists on a Japanese Antarctic expedition (1957–1962) identified only one island in the position given by the Norwegians and transferred the Norwegian name to it.
Web links
- Flein Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flein Island on geographic.org (English)