Nadezhdy Island is a bare rock island nearly long, lying just off the north-central side of Schirmacher Hills,

Queen Maud Land Queen Maud Land ( no, Dronning Maud Land) is a roughly region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east. In addit ...

. First photographed from the air by the German Antarctic Expedition, 1938–39. Mapped by the

Soviet Antarctic Expedition The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SAE or SovAE) (russian: Советская антарктическая экспедиция, САЭ, ''Sovetskaya antarkticheskaya ekspeditsiya'') was part of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of the So ...

in 1961 and named Ostrov Nadezhdy (Hope Island).

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