Ongul Island
| Ongul Island | ||
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| Waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| Archipelago | Flatvær | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 39 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 2.5 km | |
The Ongul Island ( Japanese 西 オ ン グ ル 島 Nisi-Ongul Tô , German 'Western Ongul Island' ; English Ongul Island ) is an island off the Prince Harald coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is the largest island in the Flatvær group and is located on the east side of the entrance to Lützow-Holm-Bucht .
The island was mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1946 after they had evaluated aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The name is owed to the fact that the cartographers at that time assumed a land connection between this island and the island known today as East Ongul Island, which gives it the appearance of a fish hook (Norwegian Ongul ). However, a Japanese Antarctic expedition discovered a strait between the island described here and East Ongul Island in 1957 .
Web links
- Ongul Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ongul Island on geographic.org (English)