Nesøya
| Nesøya | ||
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| Waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| Archipelago | Flatvær | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 39 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 800 m | |
Nesøya (loosely translated from Norwegian headland island or Kapinsel ) is an island off the Prince Harald Coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Lands . It belongs to the Flatvær archipelago and is located on the east side of the entrance to Lützow-Holm-Bucht .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it in 1946 using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 , and gave it a descriptive name.
Web links
- Nesøya in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nesøya on geographic.org (English)