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.
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  • Island
  • …lies at an elevation of 1 metre (3 feet)
  • 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”
    “White Island”

Kvitøya

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Latitude
80.18991° or 80° 11′ 24″ north
Longitude
32.25927° or 32° 15′ 33″ east
Open location code
CGGJ57Q5+XP
Geo­Names ID
607255
Wiki­data ID
Q851568

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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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