Ufs Island is a rocky island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 2 miles (3.2 km) wide, lying in the east part of Howard Bay, Antarctica, just north of the Lachal Bluffs

Lachal Bluffs

Lachal Bluffs is a group of rocky headlands located just south of Ufs Island and east of Howard Bay, and about 4 km west of Allison Bay, on Mawson Coast of Mac. Robertson Land. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and was...

, and about 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Allison Bay

Allison Bay

Allison Bay , also known as Isvika, is a small bay immediately west of the Utstikkar Glacier, and about east of the Lachal Bluffs and Ufs Island, on the Mawson Coast of Mac. Robertson Land in Antarctica...

. Cape Simpson, the north end of this island, was discovered by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Mawson in February 1931, but the feature's insularity was first recognized by Norwegian cartographers working from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37. They named it Ufsoy (bluff island).