Hatusima
| Hatusima | ||
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| Waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| Archipelago | Flatvær | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 0 ′ S , 39 ° 35 ′ E | |
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Hatusima ( Japanese 初 島 Hatsu-shima , German 'First Island' ) is a small island off the Prince Harald coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is located in the north-eastern sector of the Lützow-Holm Bay and belongs to the Flatvær archipelago .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them in 1946 using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . Japanese scientists named it so in 1962 because the island was the first port of call for the Japanese Antarctic expedition, which ran from 1957 to 1962.
Web links
- Hatusima in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)