Thorfinnøyane
| Thorfinnøyane | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| archipelago | Colbeck Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 21 ′ S , 60 ° 54 ′ E | |
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| Main island | Heckmann Island | |
The Thorfinnøyane are a group of small islands 8 km off the coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . They are between Campbell Head and Cape Simpson .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them, mapped them using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . It is named after the Norwegian whaling ship Thorfinn , which operated in the waters around this archipelago between 1933 and 1934.
Web links
- Thorfinn Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Thorfinn Islands on geographic.org (English)