Salm Island
Salm Island is a roughly round-shaped island in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Salm Island was named by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition after the Salm-Hoogstraten aristocratic dynasty to which Count Karl Alexander, one of the expedition's main sponsors, belonged.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Russia
- Also known as: “Ostrov Sal’ma”
Salm Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Arkhangelsk Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Salm Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة سالم”
- Asturian: “Islla Salm”
- Azerbaijani: “Salm adası”
- Catalan: “Illa de Salm”
- Catalan: “Salm”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Sal’m”
- Chinese: “萨利姆岛”
- Chinese: “薩利姆島”
- Chinese: “薩爾姆島”
- Dutch: “Salm Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سالم”
- French: “île Salm”
- French: “Île Salm”
- German: “Salm-Insel”
- Greek: “Σαλμ”
- Italian: “isola di Salm”
- Italian: “Isola di Salm”
- Japanese: “サルム島”
- Kotava: “Salm (ewala)”
- Kotava: “Salm”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hochstetterøyane”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Koldeweyøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Litkeøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ostrov Salm”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Salmøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Schönauøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Остров Сальм”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Salm”
- Russian: “Остров Сальм”
- Russian: “Сальм”
- Spanish: “Isla Salm”
- Turkish: “Salm Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Сальм”
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