Sjuøyane

Sjuøyane
Location of Sjuøyane
Waters	Arctic Ocean
archipelago	Svalbard
Geographical location	80 ° 41 ′  N , 20 ° 42 ′  E Coordinates: 80 ° 41 ′  N , 20 ° 42 ′  E
Number of islands	7th
Main island	Phippsøya
Total land area	65 km²
Residents	uninhabited
Map of Sjuøyane and Waldenøya

The Sjuøyane ("seven islands") form a group of islands north of Northeast Land , in the Svalbard Archipelago.

geography

The archipelago has a total area of ​​65 km². It is separated from the northeastern country and its offshore islands by the 13 km wide Nordkappsundet . The northernmost island in the group, Rossøya , is Norway's northernmost landmass . The second northernmost island in the group, 80 meters southeast of Rossøya, is Vesle Tavleøya ("small table island"). The main island and largest island in the Sjuøyane is Phippsøya . It is named after Constantine John Phipps , who passed Spitzbergen on an expedition to the North Pole in 1773 , but later had to decide to turn back. Also on board was the future British admiral Horatio Nelson , namesake of Nelsonøya . Another island in the group, Parryøya , is named after William Edward Parry . The other two islands in Sjuøyane are called Martensøya , named after Friderich Martens , the author of a travelogue to Spitsbergen from the 17th century, and Tavleøya , immediately northwest of the main island Phippsøya.

The Sjuøyane are part of the Northeast Svalbard Nature Reserve .

The island of Waldenøya in the southwest is no longer included in the archipelago.

Islands

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

island Area ( ha ) Height m WGS84 - coordinates Rossøya 8th 50 80 ° 49 ′ 42.0 ″  N , 020 ° 21 ′ 06.0 ″  E Vesle Tavleøya 30th 275 80 ° 49  '18.0 " N , 020 ° 21' 36.0"  O Tavleøya 50 230 80 ° 45 '12.0 "  N , 020 ° 26' 54.0"  O Phippsøya 2200 465 80 ° 43 '18.0 "  N , 020 ° 43' 18.0"  O Martensøya 1500 405 80 ° 39 '42.0 "  N , 021 ° 08'54.0"  E Parryøya 1700 370 80 ° 38 '18.0 "  N , 020 ° 42' 18.0"  O Nelsonøya 10 140 80 ° 37 ′ 42.0 ″  N , 020 ° 29 ′ 06.0 ″  E Sjuøyane 6500 465 80 ° 41 '21.0 "  N , 020 ° 42' 11.0"  O

Rossøya (far left) and Vesle Tavleøya (1898)

literature

• Friderich Martens: Spitzbergische or Groenlandische Reise description done in 1671. Described from personal experience / the figures required for this demolished after life itself / (as shown here in Kupffer) and now communicated through the print . Hamburg / Printed by Gottfried Schultzen's costs / In 1675 ( digitized copy from Oxford University )
• 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 978-82-90653- 30-4 (English)

Web links

Commons : Sjuøyane  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sjuøyane . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
• Spitzbergen.de to Sjuøyane
• Drive to Martensøya (French, with pictures)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Store norske leksikon
2. ↑ ^{a b} The Norwegian Pilot . Volume 7: Sailing Directions Svalbard and Jan Mayen , 2012, p. 293 (English).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} The Norwegian Pilot . Volume 7: Sailing Directions Svalbard and Jan Mayen , 2012, p. 294 (English).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} The Norwegian Pilot . Volume 7: Sailing Directions Svalbard and Jan Mayen , 2012, p. 43 (English).