Vegvisars
| Vegvisars | ||
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| Waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| Archipelago | Flatvær | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 58 ′ S , 39 ° 35 ′ E | |
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Vegvisaren ( Norwegian for signpost , Japanese し る べ 島 Sirube Zima ) is an island off the Prince Harald coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is halfway between the Japanese Shōwa station and Tottsuki Point on the north side of the Flatvær archipelago .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them in 1946 using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . Japanese scientists mapped it again based on surveys carried out in 1957 and named it in 1988. Scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute translated this name into Norwegian in 1989.
Web links
- Vegvisaren in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Vegvisaren in the directory of the Norwegian Polar Institute (English)