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Vaigattøyane
Vaigattøyane is a group of islands in Hinlopen Strait, between Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet of the Svalbard archipelago. The island group is named after ''Waygat'', a previous name of Hinlopenstretet. The largest island of the group is Wahlbergøya Wahlbergøya is an island in Hinlopen Strait, between Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet of the Svalbard archipelago. The island has an area of about . The islands highest point is 194 m.a.s.l. Named after Swedish botanist Peter Fredrik Wahlberg P ..., while other islands are Von Otterøya, Nyströmøya and Berggrenøya. References Islands of Svalbard {{svalbard-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wahlbergøya
Wahlbergøya is an island in Hinlopen Strait, between Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet of the Svalbard archipelago. The island has an area of about . The islands highest point is 194 m.a.s.l. Named after Swedish botanist Peter Fredrik Wahlberg Peter Fredrik Wahlberg (19 June 1800, in Gothenburg – 22 May 1877, in Stockholm) was a Swedish entomologist and professor at the University College of Stockholm. Wahlberg was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Sw .... It is the largest island of Vaigattøyane. The island is included in the Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve. References Islands of Svalbard {{svalbard-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Von Otterøya
Von Otterøya is an island in Hinlopen Strait between Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. The island belongs to Vaigattøyane, and is located south of Wahlbergøya. The highest point is 76 m.a.s.l. Total area of the island, about 20 km2. The island is named after Swedish naval officer, baron and politician Fredrik von Otter Fredrik Wilhelm von Otter (11 April 1833 – 9 March 1910) was a Swedish ''friherre'' (aristocrat), naval officer and politician who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1900 to 1902. Life and work Otter was born on the Fimmersta estate (Töre .... References Islands of Svalbard {{Svalbard-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nyströmøya
Nyströmøya is an island in Hinlopen Strait between Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. The island belongs to Vaigattøyane, and is located north of Wahlbergøya Wahlbergøya is an island in Hinlopen Strait, between Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet of the Svalbard archipelago. The island has an area of about . The islands highest point is 194 m.a.s.l. Named after Swedish botanist Peter Fredrik Wahlberg P .... The island is named after Swedish physician and politician Carl Nyström. The highest point is 49 m.a.s.l. Total area of the island, about 7 km2. References Islands of Svalbard {{Svalbard-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berggrenøya
Berggrenøya is an island in Hinlopen Strait in the Svalbard archipelago, the most western of the islands of Vaigattøyane. The island is named after Swedish botanist Sven Berggren. The highest point is 23 m.a.s.l. Total area approximately 0,6 km2. acc. to Norwegian Polar Institute. Beggrenøya is included in the Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve () is located in the north-eastern part of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. The nature reserve covers all of Nordaustlandet, Kong Karls Land, Kvitøya, Sjuøyane, Storøya, Lågøya, Wilhelm Island, Wahl .... References Islands of Svalbard {{svalbard-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinlopen Strait
The Hinlopen Strait () is the strait between Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet in Svalbard, Norway. It is long and wide. The strait is difficult to pass because of pack ice. It is believed to have been named after Thijmen Jacobsz Hinlopen. The northern part of the strait is called Nordporten, between Storsteinhalvøya and Mosselhalvøya Mosselhalvøya is a peninsula in Ny-Friesland at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is located between Mosselbukta and Sorgfjorden. At the northern part of the peninsular is the coastal plain of Verlegenhukflya, with its northernmost point Verlegenhuken. R .... The southern part, called Sørporten, widens up between Bråsvellbreen and the Bastian Islands. References External links * http://www.caplex.no/Web/ArticleView.aspx?id=9314679 (Norwegian) Hinlopen Strait's wildlife Straits of Svalbard {{svalbard-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian language, Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway in the Arctic Ocean. Constituting the westernmost bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland Sea. Spitsbergen covers an area of , making it the largest island in Norway and the List of islands by area, 36th largest in the world. The administrative centre is Longyearbyen. Other settlements, in addition to research outposts, are the mining community of Barentsburg, the research community of Ny-Ålesund, and the mining outpost of Sveagruva. Spitsbergen was covered in of ice in 1999, which was approximately 58.5% of the island's total area. The island was first used as a whaling base in the 17th and 18th centuries, after which it was abandoned. Coal mining started at the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordaustlandet
Nordaustlandet (Anglicised as North East Land) is the second-largest island in the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, with an area of . It lies north east of Spitsbergen, separated by Hinlopen Strait. Much of Nordaustlandet lies under large ice caps, mainly Austfonna and Vestfonna, the remaining parts of the north being tundra inhabited by Svalbard reindeer, reindeer and walruses. The island is uninhabited and lies entirely within Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve. History English people, English walrus hunters first sighted the south point of Nordaustlandet in 1617. This discovery was shown on the ''Muscovy Company's map'' (1625; but based on discoveries made in and prior to 1622), with the island labeled as ''Sir Thomas Smyth's Iland''. It also shows the North Cape (''Point Purchas''). It is first named ''Oostlandt'' ("East Land") on a Dutch Republic, Dutch 1662 map, and the following year another Dutch map marked its coastline more distinctly, showing its west and north coasts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. North of continental Europe, mainland Europe, it lies about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range from 74th parallel north, 74° to 81st parallel north, 81° north latitude, and from 10th meridian east, 10° to 35th meridian east, 35° east longitude. The largest island is Spitsbergen (37,673 km2), followed in size by Nordaustlandet (14,443 km2), (5,073 km2), and Barentsøya (1,288 km2). Bear Island (Norway), Bjørnøya or Bear Island (178 km2) is the most southerly island in the territory, situated some 147 km south of Spitsbergen. Other small islands in the group include Hopen (Svalbard), Hopen to the southeast of Edgeøya, Kongsøya and Svenskøya in the east, and Kvitøya to the northeast. The largest settlement is Longyearbyen, situated in Isfjor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Polar Institute
The Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI; ) is Norway's central governmental institution for scientific research, mapping and environmental monitoring in the Arctic and the Antarctic. The NPI is a directorate under Norway's Ministry of Climate and Environment (Norway), Ministry of Climate and Environment. The institute advises Norwegian authorities on matters concerning polar environmental management and is the official environmental management body for Norwegian activities in Antarctica. Activities The institute's activities are focused on environmental research and management in the polar regions. The NPI's researchers investigate biodiversity, climate and environmental toxins in the Arctic and Antarctic, and in this context the institute equips and organizes large-scale expeditions to both polar regions. The institute contributes to national and international climate work, and is an active contact point for the international scientific community. The institute collects and analyses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
