Foynøya
| Foynøya | ||
|---|---|---|
| Waters | Barents Sea | |
| Archipelago | Spitsbergen | |
| Geographical location | 80 ° 26 '58 " N , 26 ° 9' 12" E | |
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| length | 2.5 km | |
| width | 600 m | |
| surface | 1.5 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 80 moh. | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Foynøya is the Norwegian Spitzberg archipelago belonging island off the north coast of Northeast Lands . It is named after the Norwegian whaling entrepreneur Svend Foyn , who introduced the harpoon cannon.
geography
Foynøya is the largest of a group of four small islands north-northeast of Cape Bruun. The others are Brochøya , three kilometers to the west, and Draugen and Schübelerøya, five and seven kilometers to the southwest, respectively. Foynøya is sickle-like in shape, up to 80 m high and 2.5 km long in north-south direction. The surface of the island is dominated by steep cliffs and rough stone blocks, but there are also narrow beaches.
history
In May 1928 the airship Italia crashed on its way back from the North Pole . Umberto Nobile and eight of his companions were left on the drifting ice. When they were discovered from an airplane on June 20, they were a few kilometers northeast of Foynøya. Two participants in a rescue expedition, the Italian captain Gennaro Sora (1892-1949) and his Dutch dog sled driver Sjef van Dongen (1906-1973), stranded on the island in July 1928. They set out from the north cape of Chermsideøya on June 18 and advanced via Scorsbyøya , Cape Platen and Cape Bruun to Foynøya, where they arrived on July 4th. Here they ran out of provisions and dog food, so that they got into trouble themselves. They were discovered by the Soviet icebreaker Krasin on the morning of July 12, 1928 and picked up by two Swedish seaplanes in the evening . The international rescue operation was later discussed in the radio play SOS… rao rao… Foyn , the title of which also includes the name of the island of Foynøya.
nature
Foynøya has been part of the Northeast Svalbard Nature Reserve since 1973 . Puffins and black guillemots breed on the island .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Foynøya . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
- ↑ a b 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. 303 (English).
- ↑ a b Foynøya at www.spitzbergen.de, accessed on January 18, 2016.
- ^ Umberto Nobile: Flights over the Pole. FA Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1980, p. 177 ff.
- ^ Umberto Nobile: Flights over the Pole. FA Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1980, p. 205.
- ↑ Palle Uhd Jepsen, Are Mobæk: Census of seabird colonies on Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, and in neighboring localities in 1978 and 1979 . In: Polar Research . Volume 1, No. 2, 1983, pp. 199-209 (English). doi : 10.3402 / polar.v1i2.6984