Halvmåneøya
Sign in to saveHalvmåneøya () is a small, uninhabited Norwegian island off the southeastern coast of Edgeøya, part of the Svalbard archipelago. Halvmåneøya, as part of Edgeøya, has been a nature preserve since 1973, and visitation is strictly regulated.
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The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Islands of Svalbard and Uninhabited islands of Norway.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Svalbard
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Svalbard
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 12
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Arctic Ocean
- Width
- 2.2
- Length
- 7
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- located in/on physical feature
- Barents Sea
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Halvmåneøya () is a small, uninhabited Norwegian island off the southeastern coast of Edgeøya, part of the Svalbard archipelago. Halvmåneøya, as part of Edgeøya, has been a nature preserve since 1973, and visitation is strictly regulated.
The island was labelled as Abbots I. by the Muscovy Company's map (1625), and St. Jacob by Willem Jansz. Blaeu (1662). Hendrick Doncker (1663) was the first to mark it Halvmaens eyl.. This last name has been retained to the present. The modern Norwegian name, Halvmåneøya, is a direct translation of the old name, meaning Half Moon Island. Halvmåneøya is large and consists entirely of dolerite rock. In 2010, traffic has been banned on most of the island, except a small area around Bjørneborg, a hunting station originally built in 1904. Bjørneborg has been enlarged and repaired later.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Halvmåneøya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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