Lugg Island
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| Waters | Prydz Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 32 ′ S , 77 ° 57 ′ E | |
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Lugg Island is a small island off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . In Prydz Bay it is 1.5 km northwest of Lake Island off the western end of the Breidnes Peninsula in the Vestfold Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after Desmond James Lugg (* 1938), a physician on Davis Station in 1963, who visited the island for biological studies.
Web links
- Lugg Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lugg Island on geographic.org (English)