Nøstet
| Nøstet | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 37 ′ S , 62 ° 41 ′ E | |
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| length | <0.8 km | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Nøstet (Norwegian for boat shed ) is an island less than 800 m long off the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the southern part of Holme Bay it is located 3 km west-southwest of Evans Island .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them, mapped them using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 .
Web links
- Nøst Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nøst Island on geographic.org (English)