Abeløya

Abeløya
	Abeløya (top right) on a satellite image of King Karl Land
Waters	Arctic Ocean
Archipelago	King Karl Land
Geographical location	78 ° 59 ′ 20 ″ N , 30 ° 12 ′ 20 ″ E Coordinates: 78 ° 59 ′ 20 ″ N , 30 ° 12 ′ 20 ″ E
surface	13.2 km²
Highest elevation	20 m
Residents	uninhabited
	King Karl Land

Abeløya is one of the three main islands of the König-Karl-Land archipelago belonging to Svalbard . It is the easternmost island in the archipelago, with an area of 13.2 km², significantly smaller than the other two main islands, Svenskøya and Kongsøya , and very flat. It is separated from Kongsøya by Lydiannasund. The island of Berrøya lies in front of the southern cape of the island (Cape Schaudinn).

Abeløya has been part of the Northeast Svalbard Nature Reserve since 1973 . Since 1985, trips to Abeløya have been banned to protect the polar bear population there. The island is also known as the nesting site for the Ivory Gull.

The island was named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel .

Abeløya was first set foot on August 2, 1898, by the participants in the German scientific Heligoland expedition led by zoologists Fritz Römer and Fritz Schaudinn .

Individual evidence

↑ Abeløya . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
↑ Ordinances on larger protected areas in Svalbard of April 4, 2014 (Norwegian), accessed on January 23, 2016
^ Norwegian Polar Institute: Ivory gull , accessed on October 31, 2010
^ William Barr: The Helgoland Expedition to Svalbard: The German Expedition in the Northern Arctic Ocean, 1898 . In: Arctic 41, No. 3, 1988, pp. 203-214
^ Fritz Römer and Fritz Schaudinn (eds.): Fauna Arctica. A compilation of the Arctic animal forms with special consideration of the Svalbard area based on the results of the German expedition to the northern Arctic Ocean in 1898 . Gustav Fischer, Jena 1900, p. 27f

[1] Abeløya . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).

[2] Ordinances on larger protected areas in Svalbard of April 4, 2014 (Norwegian), accessed on January 23, 2016

[3] Norwegian Polar Institute: Ivory gull , accessed on October 31, 2010

[4] William Barr: The Helgoland Expedition to Svalbard: The German Expedition in the Northern Arctic Ocean, 1898 . In: Arctic 41, No. 3, 1988, pp. 203-214

[5] Fritz Römer and Fritz Schaudinn (eds.): Fauna Arctica. A compilation of the Arctic animal forms with special consideration of the Svalbard area based on the results of the German expedition to the northern Arctic Ocean in 1898 . Gustav Fischer, Jena 1900, p. 27f