Kringla
| Kringla | ||
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| Waters | Langsundet and Bell Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 10 ′ S , 58 ° 34 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | > 2 | |
Kringla ( Norwegian for The Ring ) are a group of two islands and a few cliffs off the coast of the East Antarctic Kemplands . It lies between the island of Brøka and Law Promontory in the western section of Langsundet and forms the eastern boundary of Bell Bay .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it as a single island, mapped it in 1946 using aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Aerial photos taken by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1959 showed that the formation contained more than one island.
Web links
- Kring Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kring Islands on geographic.org (English)