East Ongul Island
| East Ongul Island | ||
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| Waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| Archipelago | Flatvær | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 39 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1.5 km | |
The East Ongul Island (from Japanese 東 オ ン グ ル 島 Higashi-Onguru-tō , English East Ongul Island ) is an island off the Prince Harald coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It belongs to the Flatvær archipelago and is located on the east side of the entrance to Lützow-Holm Bay, immediately east of the northern part of Ongul Island .
The island was mapped by Norwegian cartographers as part of Ongul Island in 1946 after they had evaluated aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . However, a Japanese Antarctic expedition in 1957 discovered a strait between the island described here and Ongul Island. The naming was based on the name of the neighboring island. Ongul is the Norwegian name for a fish hook .
The East Ongul Island is the location of the Japanese Shōwa station . A stone man erected in 1961 to commemorate Shin Fukushima, who died during the 4th Japanese Antarctic expedition, is listed as HSM-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yoshifumi Nogi: Linking up Antarctic observations between Japanese and international communities on the homepage of the Japanese Polar Research Institute, accessed on November 16, 2019.
- ↑ HSM 2: Fukushima's Rock Cairn on the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat website .
Web links
- East Ongul Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- East Ongul Island on geographic.org (English)