Mitsudomoe Islands
| Mitsudomoe Islands | ||
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| Waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 57 ′ S , 38 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 3 | |
The Mitsudomoe Islands ( Japanese 三 つ ど も え 島 Mitsudomoe-jima , German 'three finger islands' , Norwegian Tresteinane 'three stone islands' ) are three small islands off the Prince Harald coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the southeastern branch of the Lützow-Holm-Bucht they are close to each other and 1.5 km west of the Strandnebba hill .
Aerial photographs and measurements by a Japanese Antarctic expedition carried out from 1957 to 1961 were used to map them. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the Japanese designation in 1968 in a partial translation into English.
Web links
- Mitsudomoe Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mitsudomoe Islands on geographic.org (English)