Foyn Island

Foyn Island
	Topographic map of the Adare Peninsula and Foyn Island (bottom right)
Waters	Ross Sea
Archipelago	Possession Islands
Geographical location	71 ° 57 ′ S , 171 ° 5 ′ E Coordinates: 71 ° 57 ′ S , 171 ° 5 ′ E
Residents	uninhabited

Foyn Island ( Norwegian Foynøya ) is an island in the Ross Sea off the Borchgrevink coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . After Possession Island, it is the second largest island in the group of Possession Islands southeast of the Adare Peninsula .

Participants in the Norwegian Antarctic expedition with the ship Antarctic (1894–1895) named the island after the Norwegian entrepreneur Svend Foyn (1809–1894), the main sponsor of this research trip . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the name to English in 1962.

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