Ranvik Island
| Ranvik Island | ||
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| Waters | Ranvik | |
| Archipelago | Rough Islands | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 53 '32 " S , 77 ° 49' 48" E | |
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| length | 2.5 km | |
Ranvik Island is a 2.5 km long island off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is the largest island in the southern part of the Rauer Islands and is located 5 km northwest of the mouth of the Browns Glacier at the northern end of Ranvik Bay .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it on the basis of aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 and mistakenly believed it to be a headland connected to the mainland. They named it based on the naming of the bay of the same name as Ranviktangen ( German Ranvik tongue ). The American geographer John Hobbie Roscoe (1919-2007) discovered in 1952 after evaluating aerial photographs of the American Operation Highjump (1946-1947) that it was actually an island. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names adapted the name accordingly in 1956.
Web links
- Ranvik Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ranvik Island on geographic.org (English)