Kvitøya
Kvitøya is an island in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, with an area of 682 square kilometres. It is the easternmost part of the Kingdom of Norway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean
- Also known as: “Commander Gillies’ Land”, “Commandeur Giles Land”, “Giles-maa”, “Giles’ White Island”, “Gilles Land”, “Gillis’s Land”, “Hvidøen”, “Hvita Ön”, “Hvitoya”, “Ile Blanche”, “Isola Bianca”, “New Iceland”, “Ny Island”, “Ostrov Belyj”, “Valkoinen Saari”, “Vidö”, and “White Island”
Kvitøya
- Category: landform
- Location: Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kvitøya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كفيتويا”
- Asturian: “islla Kvitøya”
- Asturian: “Kvitøya”
- Azerbaijani: “Ağ adası”
- Belarusian: “востраў Белы”
- Catalan: “Kvitøya”
- Cebuano: “Kvitøya”
- Central Kurdish: “کڤیتۆیا”
- Chinese: “白岛”
- Chinese: “白島”
- Czech: “Bílý ostrov”
- Czech: “Kvitøya”
- Danish: “Kvitøya”
- Dutch: “Kvitoya”
- Dutch: “Kvitøya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كڤيتويا”
- Esperanto: “Kvitøya”
- Estonian: “Kvitoya”
- Estonian: “Kvitöya”
- Estonian: “Kvitøya”
- Finnish: “Valkosaari”
- French: “Île Blanche”
- French: “Kvitoya”
- French: “Kvitøya”
- Galician: “Kvitøya”
- German: “Gillisland”
- German: “Kvit-Insel”
- German: “Kvitoeya”
- German: “Kvitoya”
- German: “Kvitöya”
- German: “Kvitøya”
- Greek: “Κβίτεγια”
- Hebrew: “קוויטייה”
- Italian: “Kvitøya”
- Japanese: “クヴィト島”
- Japanese: “クヴィ島”
- Korean: “크비퇴위아 섬”
- Korean: “크비퇴위아섬”
- Latvian: “Kviteja”
- Lithuanian: “Baltoji sala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kvitøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kvitøya”
- Norwegian: “Kvitøya”
- Polish: “Kvitoya”
- Polish: “Kvitøya”
- Polish: “Viton”
- Polish: “Vitön”
- Polish: “Wyspa Biała”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Kvit”
- Portuguese: “Kvitøya”
- Pushto: “سپين ټاپو”
- Romanian: “Kvitøya”
- Russian: “Белый (архипелаг Шпицберген)”
- Russian: “Белый остров”
- Russian: “Белый”
- Slovak: “Biely ostrov”
- Spanish: “Kvitoya”
- Spanish: “Kvitøya”
- Swedish: “Kvitöya”
- Swedish: “Kvitøya”
- Swedish: “Vitön”
- Turkish: “Kvitøya”
- Ukrainian: “Квітея”
- Ukrainian: “Квітоя”
- Wu Chinese: “白島（挪威）”
- Wu Chinese: “白島”
- Yue Chinese: “白島”
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