Larsøya
Sign in to savethumb|Map of Bouvetøya with Larsøya shown in the bottom left. Larsøya, sometimes anglicized as Lars Island, is a rocky island, less than long, which lies just off the southwestern extremity of the island of Bouvetøya in the South Atlantic Ocean. It was first roughly charted in 1898 by a German expedition under Carl Chun. The Norwegian expedition under Captain Harald Horntvedt made a landing on the island from the ship Norvegia in December 1927, and named it after Lars Christensen, sponsor of the expedition.
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- Instance of
- island
- Named after
- Lars Christensen
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Bouvet Island
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 0.04
- Elevation
- 2
- Body of water
- South Atlantic Ocean
- Length
- 0.4
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thumb|Map of Bouvetøya with Larsøya shown in the bottom left. Larsøya, sometimes anglicized as Lars Island, is a rocky island, less than long, which lies just off the southwestern extremity of the island of Bouvetøya in the South Atlantic Ocean. It was first roughly charted in 1898 by a German expedition under Carl Chun. The Norwegian expedition under Captain Harald Horntvedt made a landing on the island from the ship Norvegia in December 1927, and named it after Lars Christensen, sponsor of the expedition.
== See also == List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
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