Galten (Antarctica)
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| Waters | Magnet Bay | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 23 ′ S , 56 ° 25 ′ E | |
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Galten (Norwegian for boar or boar ) is a small group of islands off the coast of the East Antarctic Kemplands . It is located 16 km west of Cape Davis in the eastern part of Magnet Bay .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them, map them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The islands were first visited in 1957 by a team led by the New Zealand geologist Bruce Harry Stinear (1913-2003) as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions .
Web links
- Galten Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Galten Islands on geographic.org (English)