![Rauer Islands](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Rauer_Islands.jpg)
The Rauer Islands () are a group of rocky coastal
island
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...
s which lie between
Sorsdal Glacier Tongue and
Ranvik Bay, in the southeast part of
Prydz Bay
Prydz Bay is a deep embayment of Antarctica between the Lars Christensen Coast and Ingrid Christensen Coast. The Bay is at the downstream end of a giant glacial drainage system that originates in the East Antarctic interior. The Lambert Glacie ...
. Discovered and roughly charted in February 1935 by a Norwegian expedition under Captain
Klarius Mikkelsen (see
Caroline Mikkelsen). He named them ''Rauer'', probably after the island lying in
Oslofjord
The Oslofjord (, ; en, Oslo Fjord) is an inlet in the south-east of Norway, stretching from an imaginary line between the and lighthouses and down to in the south to Oslo in the north. It is part of the Skagerrak strait, connecting the Nor ...
en opposite
Tønsberg
Tønsberg , historically Tunsberg, is a city and municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, eastern Norway, located around south-southwest of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near its mouth onto the Skagerrak. The administrative c ...
, Norway.
See also
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List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands
Islands of Princess Elizabeth Land
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