Hop Island
| Hop Island | ||
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Archipelago | Rough Islands | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 49 '43 " S , 77 ° 42' 4" O | |
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| length | 5 km | |
Hop Island is a 5 km long and rocky island off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is one of the largest islands in the Rauer Islands group and is located 1.5 km west-southwest of Filla Island .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them using aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . They gave a supposedly much larger island with a supposed southern branch and a bay the descriptive name Hopøy (Norwegian for cluster island ). A more precise mapping was carried out in 1952 by John H. Roscoe using the aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946-1947), as a result of which the Norwegian name was transferred into English.
Web links
- Hop Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hop Island on geographic.org (English)