Storøya (Svalbard)
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| Waters | Barents Sea | |
| Archipelago | Spitsbergen | |
| Geographical location | 80 ° 4 ′ N , 28 ° 4 ′ E | |
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| length | 11 km | |
| width | 7 km | |
| surface | 50 km² | |
| Highest elevation | Storøyjøkulen 245 moh. |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Storøya ( Norwegian "big island" ) is an island belonging to the Norwegian Svalbard Archipelago off the east coast of northeastern land .
The island is separated from Cape Laura in the east northeast by the 13 km wide Storøysund. The island of Kvitøya is 61 km further east . The area of Storøyas is about 50 km², of which 29 km² in the south is covered by the 245 m high, almost circular ice cap Storøyjøkulen. Their area decreased by 0.9 km² from 1977 to 2011, their volume by 0.4 km³. There are ice-free areas mainly in the north and east of the island, but the rocky headlands in the south are not permanently frozen either. The northern part of the island is flat and rocky and has numerous small lakes.
The island is difficult to reach because of the difficult ice conditions. Even at the turn of the 20th century it was on the charts of the British Admiralty too large and about 10 minutes recorded to the south. It has been part of the Northeast Svalbard Nature Reserve since 1973 . Walruses and polar bears can be seen regularly on Storøya . Arctic terns and swallow gulls nest here, and in former times also the rare ivory gull .
A shelter built by the Norwegian Polar Institute has stood on the foothills on the west coast of the island since 1980 .
Storøya is also visited by tourist groups. An incident occurred in July 2006 when a tourist guide shot a polar bear.
Web links
- Storøya . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 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 , pp. 43 and 341 (English).
- ↑ Nothernmost glacier changes in the Eurasian High Arctic (1950s-2010s) (PDF; 3.26 MB). In: A. Sharov: Online Atlas of Glacier Fluctuations in the Eurasian High Arctic , Joanneum Research 2012.
- ^ Hugo Rüdiger: General information about the course of the expedition to the European North Sea on board the steamer "Helgoland" . In: Negotiations of the Society for Geography in Berlin 25, Issue 8/9, 1898, pp. 430–448.
- ↑ a b Storøya at www.spitzbergen.de, accessed on February 7, 2016.
- ↑ Ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea) on the website of the Norwegian Polar Institute, accessed on February 7, 2016 (English).