Oyako Islands
| Oyako Islands | ||
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| Waters | Cosmonaut Lake | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 1 ′ S , 39 ° 33 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
The Oyako Islands ( Japanese 親子 島 Oyako-shima , German 'parent-and-child islands' , Norwegian Hjonøyane , married couple islands' ) are two small islands , one of them tiny, off the Crown Prince Olav coast of the East Antarctic Queen -Maud Lands . They are located immediately north of Cape Akarui .
Surveys and aerial photographs of a Japanese Antarctic expedition carried out from 1957 to 1962, as a result of which the naming was made, were used to map it.
Web links
- Oyako Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Oyako Islands on geographic.org (English)