Langøy
| Langøy | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 57 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1.6 km | |
| width | 700 m | |
Langøy (English Lang Island ) is an approximately 1.6 km long and 0.7 km wide island off the coast of the East Antarctic Kemplands . It is halfway between the island of Brattøy and the Øygarden archipelago .
Norwegian cartographers recorded it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . Its elongated shape gave the island its name.
Web links
- Long Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lang Island on geographic.org (English)