Phippsøya

Phippsøya
	South-east coast of Phippsøya
Waters	Arctic Ocean
Archipelago	Sjuøyane , Svalbard
Geographical location	80 ° 43 ' N , 20 ° 43' E Coordinates: 80 ° 43 ' N , 20 ° 43' E
length	11 km
width	5.6 km
surface	22 km²
Highest elevation	Tryggve Granfjellet ; 465 moh.
Residents	uninhabited
	Map of Sjuøyane and Waldenøyas

Phippsøya is the largest island of Sjuøyane ( "Seven Islands") in to Norway belonging Spitsbergen archipelago .

The island is elongated, irregularly shaped and strongly indented. It is 11 kilometers long and has an area of 22 km². An isthmus only 300 m wide divides the island into a north-west and a south-east half. Its highest point at 465 m is named after Tryggve Gran , a Norwegian participant in Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition , and is located near Kapp Ehrensvärd in the extreme northwest. Especially in the south-eastern part of the island there are smaller lakes, of which Isvatnet ("ice lake") and Alketjørna("Alkensee") are the largest. Phippsøya is separated from the neighboring island of Tavleøya by the approximately one kilometer wide Marble Sound, from Martensøya by the Trollsund and from Parryøya by the Straumporten.

The island was probably known to seal hunters as early as the 17th century. The first documented landing was made by Skeffington Lutwidge (1737-1814) on July 30, 1773. Lutwidge was captain of the Bombarde HMS Carcass , one of the two ships of the North Pole expedition of Constantine Phipps , the namesake of the island, who himself commanded the HMS Racehorse .

Web links

Commons : Phippsøya - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Phippsøya . 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. 43 (English)
^ William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia . tape 2 . ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , pp. 593 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[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] William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia . tape 2 . ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , pp. 593 ( limited preview in Google Book search).