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Låvebrua Island

Låvebrua ISland (right) and Deception Island (left)
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	63°01′20″S 60°34′40″W / 63.02222°S 60.57778°W / -63.02222; -60.57778
Highest elevation	95 m (312 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

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.

See also

• List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

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.

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

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