Ufsøy
| Ufsøy | ||
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| Waters | Howard Bay | |
| Archipelago | Robinson group | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 61 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| width | 3 km | |
Ufsøy (meaning cliff island translated from Norwegian ) is a 3 km wide and rocky island off the coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is located in the eastern part of Howard Bay .
Participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929–1931), led by the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson, discovered Cape Simpson at the northern end of the island in February 1931 . Norwegian cartographers, who also did the descriptive naming, discovered during the evaluation of aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 that it was an island.
Web links
- Ufs Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ufs Island on geographic.org (English)