Låvebrua Island
Location of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands
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| Highest elevation | 95 m (312 ft) |
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| Population | Uninhabited |
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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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This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Låvebrua Island" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
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