Barentsøya
Sign in to saveBarentsøya, anglicized as Barents Island, is an Arctic island in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway, lying between Edgeøya and Spitsbergen. To the north, in the sound between Barentsøya and Spitsbergen, lies the island of Kükenthaløya. To the south, the sound separating Barents Island from Edgeøya is Freemansundet.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Barentsøya
- Islands.image_name
- Barentsøya.png
- Islands.location
- Arctic Ocean
- Islands.archipelago
- Svalbard
- Islands.area_km2
- 1288
- Islands.area_footnotes
- glaciated.
- Islands.coastline_km
- 205
- Islands.highest_mount
- Solveigdomen
- Islands.elevation_m
- 666
- Islands.country
- Norway
- Islands.population
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Svalbard
- Named after
- Willem Barents
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Svalbard
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 1288
- Elevation
- 405
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Arctic Ocean
- Image
- Barents island franken hut 2.jpg
- Width
- 50
- Length
- 50
- Perimeter
- 205
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- Commons category
- Barentsøya
- located in/on physical feature
- Barents Sea
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
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Barentsøya, anglicized as Barents Island, is an Arctic island in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway, lying between Edgeøya and Spitsbergen. To the north, in the sound between Barentsøya and Spitsbergen, lies the island of Kükenthaløya. To the south, the sound separating Barents Island from Edgeøya is Freemansundet.
Barentsøya has no permanent human inhabitants. It is part of the Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve and forms a habitat for several species, including polar bears and kittiwakes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Barentsøya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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