Chermsideøya
| Chermsideøya | ||
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| Waters | Arctic Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Spitsbergen | |
| Geographical location | 80 ° 31 '16 " N , 20 ° 2' 8" E | |
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| length | 7 km | |
| width | 5 km | |
| surface | 20 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 305 moh. | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Chermsideøya is an island in Gustav-V-Land in the Svalbard Archipelago belonging to Norway .
It is located north of Northeast Land in front of the tip of the Laponiahalvøya peninsula. The two are separated by Beverlysund, which is only 800 m wide at its narrowest point. Immediately east of Chermsideøya are the two islands of the Castrénøyane.
Chermsideøya measures about 7 km in north-south direction and 5 km in east-west direction. The area of the island is 20 km². In two mountains that are named after the Katzenjammer Kids, who are called Knoll and Tott in Norway, the island reaches heights of 280 and 230 m respectively. The highest point is the cliff at the Eastern Cape , at 305 m . The island is ice-free in summer with the exception of a one square kilometer glaciated area on the eastern slope of the Knoll. There is a small inland lake, the Vinkeltjørna, near the deeply cut North Cape Bay.
The island is named after Herbert Chermside , a British officer and diplomat who took part in Benjamin Leigh Smith's third expedition to Svalbard in 1873 . It has been part of the Northeast Svalbard Nature Reserve since 1973 .
Web links
- Chermsideøya . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
Individual evidence
- ^ The Norwegian Pilot . Volume 7: Sailing Directions Svalbard and Jan Mayen (PDF; 55.0 MB), The Norwegian Hydrographic Service and Norwegian Polar Institute, 3rd edition, Stavanger 2012 (PDF version 3.5, May 2016), ISBN 978-82-90- 65330-4 , p. 43 (English)
- ↑ Dead . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).