Eggøykalven

Eggøykalven
	Eggøya and Eggøykalven on a woodcut from Henrik Mohn's expedition report (1882)
Waters	North Atlantic
Geographical location	70 ° 58 '4.2 " N , 8 ° 23' 32.9" W Coordinates: 70 ° 58 '4.2 " N , 8 ° 23' 32.9" W.
length	91 m
width	22 m
surface	0.1 ha
Highest elevation	15 m
Residents	uninhabited
	Kalf on the map of the Austrian expedition of 1882/83 (Adolf Bóbrik von Boldva, 1884)

Eggøykalven (German also Kalbinsel or the calf ) is a rocky island off the Norwegian island of Jan Mayen . It is less than 100 meters west of Eggøyodden, the southwest tip of the Eggøya peninsula .

It got its name from the Norwegian North Sea Expedition (1876-1878) and appears for the first time as Kalf I. on the German-language map Jan Mayens published by Carl Fredrik Wille (1830-1913) and Henrik Mohn in Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen in 1878 , using William Scoresby's map from 1820 is based on surveys from 1877. On the Danish-language map in the expedition report (1882) the island is named Ægö-Kalven . In Emil von Wohlgemuth's report on the Austrian expedition for the First International Polar Year 1882/1883, the island is consistently mentioned as the calf .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ Henrik Mohn: Contributions to the Geography and Natural History of the Northern Regions of Europe, derived from observations made on the Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition (1876–1878) . Grøndahl, Christiania 1882, p. 5 (Norwegian / English).
^ Henrik Mohn: Contributions to the Geography and Natural History of the Northern Regions of Europe, derived from observations made on the Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition (1876–1878) . Grøndahl, Christiania 1882, p. 36 (Norwegian / English).
^ Emil von Wohlgemuth: Preliminary report on the scientific polar expedition to Jan Mayen . In: The international polar research 1882–1883: The Austrian polar station Jan Mayen equipped by his Excellency Count Hanns Wilczek, led by KK Corvette captain Emil Edlen von Wohlgemuth . Observation results published by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Karl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1886, I. Bd.

[1] Henrik Mohn: Contributions to the Geography and Natural History of the Northern Regions of Europe, derived from observations made on the Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition (1876–1878) . Grøndahl, Christiania 1882, p. 5 (Norwegian / English).

[2] Henrik Mohn: Contributions to the Geography and Natural History of the Northern Regions of Europe, derived from observations made on the Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition (1876–1878) . Grøndahl, Christiania 1882, p. 36 (Norwegian / English).

[3] Emil von Wohlgemuth: Preliminary report on the scientific polar expedition to Jan Mayen . In: The international polar research 1882–1883: The Austrian polar station Jan Mayen equipped by his Excellency Count Hanns Wilczek, led by KK Corvette captain Emil Edlen von Wohlgemuth . Observation results published by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Karl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1886, I. Bd.