Lågøya

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Lågøya
Waters Arctic Ocean
Archipelago Spitsbergen
Geographical location 80 ° 18 ′  N , 18 ° 21 ′  E Coordinates: 80 ° 18 ′  N , 18 ° 21 ′  E
Lågøya (Svalbard and Jan Mayen)
Lågøya
length 14 km
width 12 km
surface 86 km²
Highest elevation 57  m
Residents uninhabited
Location of Lågøya
Location of Lågøya

Lågøya ( Norwegian "low island" ) is an island belonging to the Norwegian Svalbard Archipelago immediately northwest of Northeast Land .

geography

The island is located at the northeast entrance of the Hinlopenstrasse 5.4 km northwest of the island of Nordostland at Kapp Lady , as well as before the exit of Lady Franklinfjorden , and is about 5 km away from the peninsulas Botniahalvøya in the east and Storsteinhalvøya in the south. To the northeast are the Nordlysøyane (German Northern Light Islands ). Lågøya is 14 km long and 12 km wide with an area of ​​86 km². The island is - as its name suggests - mostly flat, only on Lambrechtsodden , its easternmost headland, does it reach a height of 57 m.

Flora and fauna

The vegetation on Lågøya is very sparse. But the island is an important breeding area for seabirds such as the swallow gull . Also phalarope and eider ducks are native here. Since walruses can also be found on Lågøya and calve here, the island is often visited by tourist ships. There are plans to introduce an annual sailing and landing ban for the west coast of the island from May 15 to August 15. Lågøya is part of the Northeast Svalbard Nature Reserve, founded in 1973 .

history

In 1773 some participants in the British expedition, led by Constantine Phipps , landed on Lågøya. From the ship's doctor Dr. Irving was given a description of the island and the animals and plants found.

In 1908 the trapper Sverdrup Zakariassen from Tromsø built a hut in the northeast of the island , in which he wintered with five other men. The hut, which had since become very dilapidated, was not occupied again until the winter of 1923/24. Trapper Meyer Olsen and his four companions originally wanted to call at East Greenland, but the ice conditions did not allow this. In 1928 Karl J. Bengtssen (1886–1939) from Bergen built a new hut further north, where he spent the winter with two other men. In the spring of 1929 they searched the north coast of northeastern country to Cape Leigh Smith in vain for survivors of the crash of the airship Italia . In July they rowed to Ny-Ålesund within 18 days .

Individual evidence

  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. 43 (English).
  2. ^ Lågøya . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
  3. ↑ Lågøya on www.spitzbergen.de , accessed on November 20, 2012
  4. ^ Sabine's gull on the Norwegian Polar Institute website
  5. ↑ Forvaltningsplan for Øst-Svalbard klar for høring , July 13, 2012, accessed on November 20, 2012
  6. ↑ Constantine Phipps: A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's Command 1773 , J. Nourse, London 1774, pp. 58f. (English)
  7. ↑ Bengtssenbukta . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
  8. ↑ Gustav Rossnes: Norsk Overvintringsfangst o på Svalbard 1895–1940 (PDF; 7.7 MB), Norsk Polarinstitutt Meddelser No. 127, Norsk Polarinstitutt, Oslo 1993, pp. 181–184 (Norwegian)

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