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thumb|View of Phippsøya from the Straumporten sound (2016) thumb|Sjuøyane Phippsøya (anglicized as Phipps Island) is the largest island in Sjuøyane, an archipelago north of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard in Arctic Norway. It is located some 22 km north of Nordkapp on Svalbard proper and 8.5 km south of Rossøya, the northernmost island of the Svalbard archipelago. Phippsøya is separated from Parryøya to the south by the 1.3 km wide Straumporten sound, from Martensøya to the southeast by the 1.1 km wide Trollsundet and from Tavleøya to the northwest by the 1 km wide Marmorsund

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Instance of
island
Part of
Sjuøyane
Named after
Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave
Country
Norway
Located in
Svalbard
Population
0
Area
22
Elevation
1
Time zone
UTC+01:00
Body of water
Arctic Ocean
Image
NOR-2016-Svalbard-Sjuøyane-Phippsøya-View from the water 04.jpg
Width
5.6
Length
11
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located in/on physical feature
Svalbard
Commons category
Phippsøya
native label
Phippsøya
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thumb|View of Phippsøya from the Straumporten sound (2016) thumb|Sjuøyane Phippsøya (anglicized as Phipps Island) is the largest island in Sjuøyane, an archipelago north of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard in Arctic Norway. It is located some 22 km north of Nordkapp on Svalbard proper and 8.5 km south of Rossøya, the northernmost island of the Svalbard archipelago. Phippsøya is separated from Parryøya to the south by the 1.3 km wide Straumporten sound, from Martensøya to the southeast by the 1.1 km wide Trollsundet and from Tavleøya to the northwest by the 1 km wide Marmorsundet.

The island is named after the English explorer Constantine John Phipps, who commanded two bomb vessels, and , on an expedition to Svalbard in 1773.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phippsøya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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