Hovdøya
| Hovdøya | ||
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 28 ′ S , 75 ° 43 ′ E | |
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Hovdøya (from Norwegian hovd 'head, skull, rounding' ) is an island off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It lies east of the Publications Ice Shelf in the southeastern part of Prydz Bay .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them descriptively, mapped them in detail using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 .
Web links
- Hovdøya in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)