Nesholmen
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| Waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 44 ′ S , 38 ° 12 ′ E | |
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Nesholmen ( roughly translated from Norwegian headland island ) is a small island off the Prince Harald coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is located 0.8 km from Djupvikneset in the southern part of Lützow-Holm Bay .
Norwegian cartographers, who also used the naming based on the naming of Djupvikneset, mapped the island based on aerial photos from the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 .
Web links
- Nesholmen Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nesholmen Island on geographic.org (English)