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.
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Vinony's link graph records 183 inbound references to Kvitøya, and connects out to Svalbard, Norway and Arctic Ocean.
The entry is geolocated on the map in isle_region, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Accuracy disputes from February 2026, Islands of Svalbard and Kvitøya.
Vinony links it to 37 Wikipedia language editions.
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
- Islands.pushpin_map
- Svalbard
- Islands.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Svalbard
- Islands.elevation_m
- 410
- Islands.country
- Norway
- Islands.population
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Svalbard
- Participant in
- S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Svalbard
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 682
- Elevation
- 410
- Body of water
- Arctic Ocean
- Image
- Kvitoya.jpg
- Width
- 22.5
- Length
- 42
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- Commons category
- Kvitøya
- native label
- Kvitøya
- located in/on physical feature
- Svalbard
- time of discovery or invention
- 1707-00-00
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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
2 mapped locations