Kumihimo Iwa
| Kumihimo Iwa | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 37 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Kumihimo Iwa ( transcription from Japanese く み ひ も 岩 'lichen rock ' ) is a rocky outcrop on the Prince Harald Coast in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It rises in the northwest of the entrance from the Lützow-Holm-Bucht in the Fletta .
Japanese cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs and surveys carried out in 1969 and 1984. They named it in 1985 based on the name of the bay Fletta ( Norwegian for lichen ).
Web links
- Kumihimo Iwa in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)