Klung Island
| Klung Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Klungholmane | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 33 ′ S , 62 ° 59 ′ E | |
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Klung Island is an island off the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is the largest island in the Klungholmane group in Holme Bay .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it in 1960 based on the name of the island group to which it belongs.
Web links
- Klung Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Klung Island on geographic.org (English)