Hovden (island)
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 15 ′ S , 76 ° 52 ′ E | |
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Hovden ( Norwegian for little pile ) is a small, rounded and rocky island off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is located in front of the end of the small glacier tongue of the Hovde Glacier in Prydz Bay .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it using aerial photos taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 .
Web links
- Hovde Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hovde Island on geographic.org (English)