Yuki Sima
| Yuki Sima | ||
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| Waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 37 ′ S , 37 ° 42 ′ E | |
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Yuki Sima (from Japanese 雪 島 ' snow island ' ) is a completely snowed-in island off the Prince Harald coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is located 3 km north of the Botnneset in the Lützow-Holm Bay .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it in 1946 based on aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936/37 in the mistaken belief that it was a northern branch of the Botnneset. After evaluating Landsat recordings in 1974, they were also mistakenly believed to be part of a group of islands. Only Japanese aerial photographs from 1983 cleared up their true nature. Japanese scholars named them descriptively in 1996.
Web links
- Yuki Sima in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)