Låvebrua Island

Location of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Låvebrua Island (63°2′S 60°35′W / 63.033°S 60.583°WCoordinates: 63°2′S 60°35′W / 63.033°S 60.583°W) is an island, 95 metres (310 ft) high, lying 0.7 nautical miles (1.3 km) 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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  1. ↑ "Låvebrua Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-06-05.
  2. ↑ Guren, Reidar (1935). Hvalfangsten i Sør-Ishavet [Whaling in the Southern Ocean] (in Norwegian). Oslo: J.W. Cappelens Forlag. p. 10.

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