The Langhovde Hills are an extensive area of bare rocky hills along the eastern shore of

Lützow-Holm Bay Lützow-Holm Bay is a large bay, about wide, indenting the coast of Queen Maud Land in Antarctica between Riiser-Larsen Peninsula and the coastal angle immediately east of the Flatvaer Islands. It was discovered by Captain Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen ...

, in Queen Maud Land,

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. They are located just south of Hovde Bay. They were mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (LCE) in 1936–37, and named descriptively ''Langhovde'' ("long knoll"). Many other features were mapped from surveys and air photos by the

Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition The refers to a series of Japanese Antarctic expeditions for scientific research. The first JARE expedition was launched in 1957 to coordinate with the International Geophysical Year. This was the team which left 15 dogs, including Taro and Ji ...

(JARE) of 1957–62, and subsequently named by JARE Headquarters.

Nearby features

Hamna Bay ("harbor bay") is a sheltered bay named by LCE that indents the coast on the western side of the Langhovde Hills. Hanma Icefall descends into the bay at its south end. Just northwest of Hamna Bay are a pair of coves called the Dokkene Coves ("the docks"). Further north of Hamna, just south of Mount Futago, is Aogōri Bay ("blue ice bay"), named by JARE. A rocky, U-shaped

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extends seaward in finger-like fashion from the west side of the hills. Its southern extremity is called Cape Nakayubi ("middle finger point"), and its western extremity is Cape Koyubi ("little finger point"). Both features were named by JARE, which also named nearby Oyayuni Point ("thumb point") on

Oyayubi Island Oyayubi Island is a narrow rock island . It lies close off Langhovde Hills, south of Mount Choto, in eastern Lutzow-Holm Bay. Oyayubi Point is a rocky point marking the southern end of Oyayubi Island. Both the island and the point were mapped ...

in association with the two. Yukidori Valley, an

Antarctic Specially Protected Area An Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) is an area on the continent of Antarctica, or on nearby islands, which is protected by scientists and several different international bodies. The protected areas were established in 1961 under the Antarct ...

, lies in the middle of the Langhovde Hills. It is a nesting site for a large number of

snow petrel The snow petrel (''Pagodroma nivea'') is the only member of the genus ''Pagodroma.'' It is one of only three birds that has been seen at the Geographic South Pole, along with the Antarctic petrel and the south polar skua, which have the most so ...

s; ''Yukidori'' is Japanese for snow petrel. North of this fingerlike peninsula is Fukuro Cove, a wide cove encompassing Koke Strand, a

beach A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, etc., or biological sources, such as mollusc shel ...

area featuring a community of

moss Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) '' sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and hor ...

es measuring . Both were mapped and named by JARE, ''Fukuro-ura'' meaning "pouch cove" and ''Koke-daira'' meaning "moss strand". Mount Chōtō, a mountain, is situated at the north end of the Hills. west of Mount Chōtō, Mizukuguri Cove indents the western shore of the Langhovde Hills. Hovde Bay ("knoll bay") and Langhovde-kita Point mark the north end of the Hills. The point was first surveyed by JARE personnel, and named ''Langhovde-kita-misaki'' ("Langhovde north point") because of its location.

Langhovde Glacier Langhovde Glacier () is a glacier at the east side of the Langhovde Hills, flowing north to Hovde Bay on the east shore of Lützow-Holm Bay, Antarctica. It was mapped from surveys and air photos by the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, 195 ...

flows north from the Hills into Hovde Bay.

Mountains

Named mountains in the Langhovde Hills include: * Mount Chōtō * Mount Futago *

Mount Heitō Mount Heitō () is a flat-topped mountain high on the southeast end of the Langhovde Hills in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was mapped from surveys and air photos taken by the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition The refers to a series o ...

* Mount Kammuri *

Mount Minami-heito Mount Minami-heito () is a mountain, high, surmounting the southeastern extremity of the Langhovde Hills, on the coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was mapped from surveys and air photos by the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition Th ...

References

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