Flensing Islands
The Flensing Islands are a group of small islands lying 1 nautical mile west of Foca Point on the west side of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hill
- Description: group of small islands in Antarctic
- Also known as: “Rocas Flensing”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Snow Hills and Moss Lake.
Snow Hills
Peak
Snow Hills are two snow-covered hills, one 240 m, the other 265 m and 0.25 nautical miles to the west. Located 0.2 nautical miles west of Cemetery Bay in the east-central part of Signy Island. Snow Hills is situated 2½ km southeast of Flensing Islands.
Moss Lake
Lake
Paternoster Valley is a valley extending southwestward from Stygian Cove in northern Signy Island. So named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee from the occurrence of three small paternoster lakes, at different levels in the valley. Moss Lake is situated 3 km east of Flensing Islands.
Flensing Islands
- Categories: mountain, island group, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
Discover Flensing Islands from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Flensing Islands” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Flensing”
- Chinese: “弗倫辛群島”
- Dutch: “Flensing Islands”
- German: “Flensing Islands”
- Ladin: “Flensing Islands”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Flensing Islands”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Flenserne”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Flensing Islands”
- Spanish: “Flensing, rocas”
- Spanish: “Rocas Flensing”
- Swedish: “Flensing”
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Highlights include Foca Point and Thulla Point.
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