The Bølingen Islands are a group of small islands, 8 miles (12.9 km) in extent, lying immediately off the north side of Publications Ice Shelf

Publications Ice Shelf

Publications Ice Shelf is an ice shelf about 35 nautical miles long on the south shore of Prydz Bay, between Mount Caroline Mikkelsen and Stornes Peninsula. Several glaciers, listed from southwest to northeast, nourish the ice shelf: Polar Times Glacier, Il Polo Glacier, Polarforschung Glacier,...

 in the southeast part of Prydz Bay

Prydz Bay

Prydz Bay is a deep embayment of Antarctica between the Lars Christensen Coast and Ingrid Christensen Coast. Portions of the bay were sighted in January and February 1931 by Norwegian whalers and the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition...

. They were discovered and roughly charted by Captain Klarius Mikkelsen in February 1935, and charted in greater detail by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936–37) and given the name "Bølingen " (the herd).