Låvebrua Island
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 1 ′ S , 60 ° 35 ′ W | |
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Låvebrua Island (from Norwegian låvebrua 'barn ramp ' ; in Argentina Islote Chaco ) is a small island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 1.1 km east of South Point on Deception Island .
The British navigator Henry Foster mapped them during his Antarctic voyage with the HMS Chanticleer, which lasted from 1828 to 1831 . Norwegian whalers gave it its descriptive name around 1927. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated this into English in 1959. The name giver of the Argentine name is the ship Chaco , which was used several times in Argentine Antarctic expeditions from 1945 to 1950.
Web links
- Låvebrua Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Låvebrua Island on geographic.org (English)