Wilhelm Island
Wilhelm Island is an island in the Svalbard archipelago. It is situated northeast of Olav V Land on Spitsbergen, in Hinlopen Strait. Its area is 120 km². About 33.5 % of the island is covered with ice. The island was named after Wilhelm I.- Island
- …lies at an elevation of around 400 metres (1,310 feet)
- Also known as“Isle Guillaume”“Isle Thumb Point”“Isola di Guglielmo”“King William Island”“Tommøya”“Vilhelmsøya”“Viljamsøya”“Waajgats Eyland”“Waygat Island”“WilhelmInsel”“Wilhelmøya”“William I Island”“William Island”
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Latitude
79.06276° or 79° 3′ 46″ north
Longitude
20.43822° or 20° 26′ 18″ east
Open location code
CGF23C7Q+47
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Wilhelm Island” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Wilhelmøya”
- Azerbaijani: “Vilhelm adası”
- Catalan: “Wilhelmøya”
- Cebuano: “Wilhelmøya”
- Chinese: “威廉岛”
- Chinese: “威廉島”
- Danish: “Wilhelmøen”
- Danish: “Wilhelmøya”
- Dutch: “Wilhelmøya”
- Esperanto: “Vilhelminsulo”
- Estonian: “Wilhelmøya”
- French: “Wilhelmøya”
- German: “Wilhelmøya”
- Greek: “Βίλχελμεγια”
- Italian: “Wilhelmøya”
- Japanese: “ウィルヘルム島”
- Latvian: “Vilhelma sala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wilhelmøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wilhelmøya”
- Norwegian: “Wilhelmøya”
- Polish: “Wyspa Wilhelma”
- Russian: “Остров Вильгельма (архипелаг Шпицберген)”
- Russian: “Остров Вильгельма”
- Spanish: “Wilhelmøya”
- Swedish: “Wilhelmøya”
- Turkish: “Wilhelmøya”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Вільгельма”
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Highlights include Roonøya and Peschel Island.
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