Kolven
| Kolven | ||
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| Waters | Utstikkar Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 33 ′ S , 61 ° 29 ′ E | |
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Kolven (Norwegian for club , in Australia Alfons Island ) is a small island off the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is located in Utstikkar Bay , 800 m east of Stedet Island, immediately northeast of Falla Bluff .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them descriptively, mapped them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Scientists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions named it in 1959 after Alfons Bolza (* 1918), a weather observer at Mawson Station in 1958.
Web links
- Kolven Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kolven Island on geographic.org (English)