Kvitøya
Sign in to saveKvitøya (English: "White Island") is an island in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, with an area of . It is the easternmost part of the Kingdom of Norway. The closest Russian Arctic possession, Victoria Island, lies only to the east of Kvitøya.
Key facts
- Islands.area_km2
- 682
- Islands.name
- Kvitøya
- Islands.image_name
- Kvitøya 2020-08-03 Sentinel-2 L2A Highlight Optimized Natural Color 01.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- Sentinel-2 image (2020)
- Islands.location
- Arctic Ocean
- Islands.archipelago
- Svalbard
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- Svalbard
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- Location in Svalbard
- Islands.elevation_m
- 410
- Islands.country
- Norway
- Islands.population
- 0
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition
- Climate
- See also
- References
Kvitøya (English: "White Island") is an island in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, with an area of . It is the easternmost part of the Kingdom of Norway. The closest Russian Arctic possession, Victoria Island, lies only to the east of Kvitøya.
The island is almost completely covered by Kvitøyjøkulen, an ice cap with an area of with a classical, hourglass-shaped dome, which has given it its name. The few ice-free land areas are each only a few square kilometres large and very barren and rocky, the largest being Andréeneset on the southwest corner of the island. Kvitøya is a part of the Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kvitøya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
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