Normanna Reef
Normanna Reef is a reef lying near the center of the south entrance to the sound in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago. The name appears on a chart based upon a 1927 survey by DI personnel.- Type: Island
- Description: landform
- Also known as: “Normanna, Arrecife”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gamma Island and Melchior Islands.
Gamma Island
Island
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
Gamma Island is an island, 1.6 kilometres long, which marks the southwestern extremity of the Melchior Islands in the Palmer Archipelago. This island was first roughly charted and named "Ile Gouts" by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, but that name has not survived in usage.
Melchior Islands
Island
Photo: Jorval, Public domain.
The Melchior Islands are a group of many low, ice-covered islands lying near the center of Dallmann Bay between Brabant Island and Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.
Kappa Island
Islet
Kappa Island is an island, nearly 0.5 nautical miles long, lying immediately south of Beta Island and close east of the Theta Islands in the Melchior Islands of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.
Normanna Reef
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Normanna Reef” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Normanna”
- Dutch: “Normanna”
- German: “Normanna-Riff”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Normanna Reef”
- Spanish: “Normanna, arrecife”
- Swedish: “Normanna Reef”
- Swedish: “Normanna”
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Highlights include Dos Monjes, punta and Misionero, canal.
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