Thousand Islands
Thousand Islands is a group of small islands south of Edgeøya. They form part of the Svalbard archipelago. The group consists of over forty islands and islets, including Brotskjer, Kulstadholmane, Utsira, Tufsen, Kong Ludvigøyane, Bölscheøya, Hornøya, Tiholmane, Meinickeøyane, Sletteøya, Schareholmane, Skråholmen, Brækmoholmane, Tareloppa, Vindholmen, and Menkeøyane.- Island
- Description: island in Norway
- Also known as“Duizend Eilanden”“Een Menigte van Eylandjes”“Hopeless Islands”“Laag Gebrooken Landt”“Le Mille Isole”“Low Brocken Ground”“Low Broken Land”“Mille-Iles”“Niedriges und Versunkenes Land”“Pays Bas et Noy锓Tausend Inseln”“Terres Basses et Coupées”“The Thousand Islands”“Tuhat-saaret”“Tusen Islands”“Tusenöarne”“Tusenøyan”“Tusenøyane”“Tusind Øer”“Tusinde Øer”“Tysjacj Ostrovov”
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Latitude
77.08333° or 77° 5′ north
Longitude
22° east
Open location code
CG9432M2+82
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Turkish—“Thousand Islands” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Tusenoyane adaları”
- Cebuano: “Tusenøyane”
- Chinese: “千島羣島”
- Chinese: “千島群島 (挪威)”
- Danish: “Tusenøyane”
- Danish: “Tusindøerne”
- Dutch: “Tusenøyane”
- Esperanto: “Mil Insuloj”
- French: “Tusenøyane”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tusenøyane”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tusenøyane”
- Norwegian: “Tusenøyane”
- Russian: “Группа тысячи островов”
- Russian: “Тусенойян”
- Russian: “Тысяча Островов”
- Swedish: “Tusenøyane”
- Turkish: “Tusenøyane”
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Svalbard: Highlights
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