Hjartøy
| Hjartøy | ||
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| Waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 38 ′ S , 39 ° 16 ′ E | |
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Hjartøy (Norwegian for Heart Island ) is an island off the Prince Harald Coast of Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . It is located 3 km west of the Skallen group of hills in the eastern part of the Lützow-Holm Bay .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them descriptively after their shape, mapped them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 .
Web links
- Hjart Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hjart Island on geographic.org (English)