Waldenøya

thumb|1897 sketch of Waldenoya thumb|Sjuøyane Waldenøya (anglicized as Walden Island) is a small, rocky island just north of Nordkapp in Nordaustlandet in the Norwegian territory of Svalbard. It is the westernmost part of Sjuøyane in the Svalbard archipelago.

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Instance of: island
Country: Norway
Located in: Svalbard
Time zone: UTC+01:00
Body of water: Arctic Ocean
Image: NO-Sjuøyane.gif

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located in/on physical feature: Svalbard
Commons category: Waldenøya

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The island is named after John Walden, who was a midshipman aboard the Hon. Constantine John Phipps' in 1773. Walden, along with two pilots, visited the island on August 5 of the same year during the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole.

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