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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: 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 Noyé”, “Tausend Inseln”, “Terres Basses et Coupées”, “The Thousand Islands”, “Tuhat-saaret”, “Tusen Islands”, “Tusenöarne”, “Tusenøyan”, “Tusenoyane”, “Tusenøyane”, “Tusind Øer”, “Tusinde Øer”, and “Tysjacj Ostrovov”
Thousand Islands
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Svalbard, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
77.08333° or 77° 5′ northLongitude
22° eastOpen location code
CG9432M2+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 302076877OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
607047Wikidata ID
Q2983353
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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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