Helgolandøya

Helgolandøya
Waters	Barents Sea
Archipelago	King Karl Land , Svalbard
Geographical location	78 ° 47 '20 " N , 28 ° 39' 41" E Coordinates: 78 ° 47 '20 " N , 28 ° 39' 41" E
length	2.3 km
width	1.4 km
surface	1.7 km²
Highest elevation	20 moh.
Residents	uninhabited

Helgolandøya (German also Helgolandinsel ) is the fourth largest island of King Karl Land in the Norwegian Svalbard Archipelago .

It is located 8.8 km south of Kapp Åkerhielm on Kongsøya and marks the southern boundary of Breibukta Bay . Your neighbor 1,800 meters to the south is the long island of Tirpitzøya . The irregularly shaped, up to 20 m high Heligoland Island is 2.3 km long and up to 1.4 km wide. Its surface consists of randomly layered rock debris. The island was discovered on July 23, 1898 by the German scientific Helgoland expedition led by zoologists Fritz Römer and Fritz Schaudinn and named after their expedition ship.

Web links

Helgolandøya . 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. 347 (English)
^ Hugo Rüdiger: General information about the course of the expedition to the European North Sea on board the steamer "Helgoland" . In: Negotiations of the Society for Geography in Berlin 25, Heft 8/9, 1898, p. 440 .
^ Fritz Römer, Fritz Schaudinn: Introduction, plan of the work and travel report . In: F. Römer, F. 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 , Volume 1, Gustav Fischer, Jena 1900, p. 24 .

[1] 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. 347 (English)

[2] Hugo Rüdiger: General information about the course of the expedition to the European North Sea on board the steamer "Helgoland" . In: Negotiations of the Society for Geography in Berlin 25, Heft 8/9, 1898, p. 440 .

[3] Fritz Römer, Fritz Schaudinn: Introduction, plan of the work and travel report . In: F. Römer, F. 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 , Volume 1, Gustav Fischer, Jena 1900, p. 24 .