Hovgaard Island
Hovgaard Island may refer to: * Hovgaard Island (Antarctica) * Hovgaard Island (Greenland) * Hovgaard Island (Kara Sea), Siberia, Russia See also * Hovgaard Islands The Hovgaard Islands are a Canadian Arctic island group in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut Territory. They were named after Andreas Hovgaard, a Polar explorer and officer of the Danish Navy who led an expedition to the Kara Sea on steamship ''Di ...

Hovgaard Island (Antarctica)
Hovgaard Island () is an island long, lying southwest of Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica. Location Hovgaard Island is off the Graham Coast of the northwest side of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is in the Wilhelm Archipelago. It is southwest of Booth Island, northwest of Mount Shackleton on the mainland, northeast of the French Passage and east of the Vedel Islands. It is off the northwest coast of the Kyiv Peninsula. Hovgaard Island is a popular location for camping in Antarctica among expedition groups due to the presence of a relatively flat campsite along Penola Strait. Campers dig "snow graves" to sleep in. The holes offer protection from the wind. Discovery and name Hovgaard Island was discovered and named Krogmann Island by the German 1873–74 expedition under Eduard Dallmann, but the name Hovgaard applied by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE), 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, has overtaken the original name in usage. Andreas Peter Hovga ...
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Hovgaard Island (Greenland)
Hovgaard Island () is a large uninhabited island of the Greenland Sea, Greenland. The island was named after Andreas Hovgaard, a polar explorer and officer of the Danish Navy who led an expedition to the Kara Sea on steamship '' Dijmphna'' in 1882–83.Hovgaard Ø. In: Anthony K. Higgins: ''Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland.'' Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin Bd. 21, 2010. Copenhagen 2010, Polar climate prevails in Hovgaard Island. The average annual temperature in the area is -17 °C. The warmest month is July when the average temperature reaches -2 °C and the coldest is February when the temperature sinks to -29 °C. Geography Hovgaard Island is a coastal island located to the south of the Holm Land Peninsula. To the west, further inshore, lies smaller Lynn Island and to the east and the southeast the Greenland Sea. The Dijmphna Sound limits the island to the west and north, and to the southwest lies the mouth o ...
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Hovgaard Island (Kara Sea)
Hovgaard Island (, ''ostrov Khovgarda'') is an island of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago in the Kara Sea, off the coast of Siberia. Administratively this island belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Krai Federal subject of Russia and is part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve, the largest nature reserve of Russia. Geography Hovgaard Island is located in the southwestern area of the archipelago on the northern side of the Matisen Strait. The island is long and has a maximum width of little less than in its southern part. It is part of the Vilkitsky Islands (острова Вилькицкого) —also known as 'Dzhekman Islands'— subgroup of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago. The closest islands are Dzhekman Island to the northwest and Ovalnyy Island to the northeast. Hovgaard Island lies about north of Nansen Island and less than northwest of the NW point of Taymyr Island across the Matisen Strait.Google Earth The climate in the archipelago is severe and the sea surrounding ...
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