Plogøy
| Plogøy | ||
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 78 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1.5 km | |
Plogøy (loosely translated from Norwegian plow -Insel ) is a 1.5 km long island in front of the Ingrid Christensen Coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth country . In the Vestfold Mountains in Prydz Bay it is 800 m north of Lake Island and just as far west of the Breidnes Peninsula .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them descriptively after their shape, mapped them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 .
Web links
- Plog Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Plog Island on geographic.org (English)