Låvebrua Island

Island in Antarctica

63°01′20″S 60°34′40″W / 63.02222°S 60.57778°W / -63.02222; -60.57778Highest elevation95 m (312 ft)AdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulationUninhabited

Låvebrua Island is an island, 95 metres (310 ft) high, lying 1.3 kilometres (0.7 nmi) east of South Point, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands off Antarctica. It was charted by a British expedition under Henry Foster, 1828–31. The name was given by Norwegian whalers operating from Deception Island, and was in use as early as 1927; it is descriptive, meaning literally "threshing floor bridge" or "barn bridge", and was a slang word for the inclined plane of the whaling factories' slipway.[1][2]

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References

  1. ^ "Låvebrua Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  2. ^ Guren, Reidar (1935). Hvalfangsten i Sør-Ishavet [Whaling in the Southern Ocean] (in Norwegian). Oslo: J.W. Cappelens Forlag. p. 10.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Låvebrua Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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