Krokøy
| Krokøy | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation Lake , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 57 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1.5 km | |
Krokøy (Norwegian for crooked island ) is an almost 1.5 km long and irregularly shaped island off the coast of the East Antarctic Kemplands . It is the largest of a group of islands 1.5 km south of Brattøy Island and 10 km west of the Hoseason Glacier .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them descriptively, mapped them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 .
Web links
- Krok Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Krok Island on geographic.org (English)