Utholmen
| Utholmen | ||
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| Waters | Cosmonaut Sea , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Flatvær | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 56 ′ S , 39 ° 31 ′ E | |
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Utholmen (meaning outer island translated from Norwegian ) is an island off the Prince Harald coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is the north-westernmost island of the Flatvær group on the east side of the entrance to Lützow-Holm-Bucht .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it in 1946 using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Their naming was based on their geographical position.
Web links
- Utholmen Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Utholmen Island on geographic.org (English)