Edgeøya
Sign in to saveEdgeøya (), anglicised as Edge Island, is a Norwegian island located in southeast of the Svalbard archipelago; with an area of , it is the third-largest island in this archipelago. An Arctic island, it forms part of the Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve, home to polar bears and reindeer. An ice field covers its eastern side. The island takes its name from Thomas Edge (died 1624), an English merchant and whaler. It is seldom visited today and development of tourist facilities is forbidden by law because of its nature reserve status.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Edgeøya
- Islands.image_name
- Edgeøya labelled.png
- Islands.location
- Arctic Ocean
- Islands.archipelago
- Svalbard
- Islands.area_km2
- 5073
- Islands.area_footnotes
- glaciated
- Islands.coastline_km
- 502
- Islands.highest_mount
- Kvitisen-Storskavlen
- Islands.elevation_m
- 590
- Islands.country
- Norway
- Islands.population
- 0
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Edgeøya (), anglicised as Edge Island, is a Norwegian island located in southeast of the Svalbard archipelago; with an area of , it is the third-largest island in this archipelago. An Arctic island, it forms part of the Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve, home to polar bears and reindeer. An ice field covers its eastern side. The island takes its name from Thomas Edge (died 1624), an English merchant and whaler. It is seldom visited today and development of tourist facilities is forbidden by law because of its nature reserve status.
==History==