Kongsøya
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| Waters | Arctic Ocean | |
| Archipelago | King Karl Land | |
| Geographical location | 78 ° 56 ' N , 28 ° 35' E | |
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| surface | 191 km² | |
| Highest elevation | Retziusfjellet 320 m |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Kongsøya (Eng. "King's Island") is the largest of the three main islands of King Karl Land in the eastern part of Svalbard . Its size is 191 km², its height up to 320 m above sea level. The highest mountain is the Retziusfjellet in the west of the island. The Hårfagrehaugen at Cape Koburg is only slightly lower (304 m). Kongsøya is under Norwegian administration.
history
During an expedition in 1890, led by the German zoologist Willy Kükenthal , he named the island after the Thuringian city of Jena . Kükenthal studied in Jena and received his doctorate here in 1884 . In 1897 the island was visited by an English expedition led by Arnold Pike and a year later, in 1898, by the German Heligoland expedition led by zoologists Fritz Römer and Fritz Schaudinn , which had been organized by Theodor Lerner . In 1899, the buoy that Salomon August Andrée and his two companions wanted to drop over the North Pole on their (failed) balloon expedition in 1897 was found on the north coast of the island.
In 1925 the Norwegians renamed the island Kongsøya. Other names and spellings for the island are Bjorneoen , Bjørneøen , Gilesoen , Gilesøen , Gillisland , Jena Insel , King Charles Island , Kong Karl-Land , Kongsoya , Kongsøya , Kung Karls O and Kung Karls Ö . The entire archipelago has been part of the Northeast Svalbard Nature Reserve since 1973 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kongsøya . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
- ↑ UNEP Islands (English)
- ^ Smith et al: The geology of Kong Karls Land, Svalbard. (PDF, 4.17 MB) Archived from the original on December 22, 2008 .
- ↑ Jena around the world: Where else “Jena” occurs in the Thuringian newspaper of June 3, 2010, accessed on November 22, 2013
- ↑ Gillis Land (Kongsoya) / Svalbard , getamap.net, accessed on February 17, 2015 (English)