Heftye Island
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| Waters | Ross Sea | |
| Archipelago | Possession Islands | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 59 ′ S , 171 ° 8 ′ E | |
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Heftye Island ( Norwegian Heftyeøya ) is a small island in the Ross Sea off the Borchgrevink coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is the southernmost island in the group of Possession Islands southeast of the Adare Peninsula .
Participants in the Norwegian Antarctic expedition on the ship Antarctic (1894–1895) named the island after the Thos bank . Joh. Heftye & Søn , shareholder of this research trip . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the name to English in 1962.
Web links
- Heftye Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Heftye Island on geographic.org (English)