Kükenthaløya
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| Waters | Heleysundet , Barents Sea | |
| Archipelago | Svalbard | |
| Geographical location | 78 ° 38 '54 " N , 21 ° 13' 36" E | |
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| length | 3.3 km | |
| width | 2.2 km | |
| surface | 5 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 68 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Kükenthaløya is a small island in the Barents Sea , which is part of the Norwegian Svalbard Archipelago .
geography
The island is located in Heleysundet between Barentsøya and the main island of Svalbard and causes a strong tidal current due to the narrowing of this strait . The island of Kükenthaløya is elongated and slopes gently to the west from its steep east coast, which is characterized by basalt columns . Their area is five square kilometers.
Nature and climate
Kükenthaløya has remained unaffected by humans. The landscape is mostly covered by snow and ice and is classified as a cold desert .
July is the warmest month on the island with an average temperature of 6.1 ° C. In February the coldest values are reached with average night temperatures of −15.8 ° C. Day and night temperatures do not differ greatly from one another, but there are significant seasonal changes.
history
In 1898 the island was visited by the German expedition to the Northern Arctic Ocean ("Helgoland Expedition"), organized by the journalist Theodor Lerner and scientifically guided by the zoologists Fritz Schaudinn and Fritz Römer . Hugo Rüdiger, the captain of the German fishing steamer Helgoland , gave the as yet unnamed island its name in honor of the German zoologist Willy Kükenthal , who led a research expedition of the Bremen Geographical Society to Svalbard in 1889.
The island has been part of the Southeast Svalbard Nature Reserve since 1973 .
literature
- Frank Berger (Ed.): Frankfurt and the North Pole. Researchers and explorers in the eternal ice. Font. Histor. Museum Frankfurt a. M., Michael Imhof Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007.
Web links
- Kükenthaløya . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fritz Römer and Fritz Schaudinn: Introduction, plan of the work and travel report . In: Römer / Schaudinn: 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. 34 .
- ^ 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).
- ↑ chinci.com ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Regulations concerning establishment of bird sanctuaries and major nature conservation areas in Svalbard (PDF; 1.1 MB), 1973 (English), accessed on April 24, 2019.
