Foldøya
| Foldøya | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 59 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 10 km | |
| width | 5 km | |
| Highest elevation | 181 m | |
Foldøya ( roughly translated from Norwegian, Fold Island ) is a 10 km long and 5 km wide island off the coast of the East Antarctic Kemplands . Together with other small islands south of it, it separates Stefansson Bay in the west from William Scoresby Bay in the east.
The island was first sighted in February 1936 by participants in the British Discovery Investigations , who mistakenly mistook it for part of the Antarctic mainland. Norwegian cartographers, who also named them descriptively, mapped them using aerial photographs taken between January and February 1937 during the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936/37 .
Web links
- Fold Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fold Island on geographic.org (English)