Menkeøyane () is a small
Norwegian island group south of
Halvmåneøya, an island off the southeast coast of
Edgeøya
Edgeøya (), anglicised as Edge Island, is a Norway, Norwegian island located in southeast of the Svalbard archipelago; with an area of , it is the third-largest island in this archipelago. An Arctic island, it forms part of the Søraust-Svalbard ...
. The group includes
Havella,
Alka,
Gassen,
Teisten,
Islomen and
Blåmåken. They comprise part of
Thousand Islands. The islands are named after the
German cartographer and historical geographer
Heinrich Theodor Menke (1819–92). The islands appear on the Muscovy Company's map (1625), one of which is labeled ''Heling I''.
References
* Norwegian Polar Institut
Place Names of Svalbard Database*Purchas, S. 1625. Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and others. Volumes XIII and XIV (Reprint 1906 J. Maclehose and sons).
Islands of Svalbard
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