Kong Karls Land
Kong Karls Land or King Charles Land is an island group in the Svalbard archipelago, in the Arctic Ocean. The island group covers an area of 342 km2 and is made up of the islands of Kongsøya, Svenskøya, Abel Island, Helgoland Island, and Tirpitzøya.- Type: Island
- Description: island group
- Also known as: “Giles-Land”, “Gruppo delle Wiches”, “Iles du Roi-Charles”, “Iles Wilhe”, “King Charles Islands”, “King Charles Land”, “King Karl Islands”, “Kong Karl Land”, “König Karl Land”, “König Karl’s Inseln”, “Kung Karls land”, “Kung Karls Land”, “Kunningas Kaarlen Maa”, “le Isole Wiches”, “Terra de Re Carlo”, “Terra del Rei Carles”, “Terra do Rei Carlos”, “Terre du Roi Charles”, “Wyches Islands”, and “Zemlja Korolja Karla”
Kong Karls Land
- Categories: island group, locality, and landform
- Location: Svalbard, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
78.83333° or 78° 50′ north
Longitude
28° east
Open location code
CGCCR2M2+82
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yue Chinese—“Kong Karls Land” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կառլ թագավորի Երկիր”
- Azerbaijani: “Kral Karl Torpağı”
- Catalan: “illes del Rei Carles”
- Catalan: “Illes del Rei Carles”
- Cebuano: “Kong Karls Land”
- Chinese: “卡尔王地群岛”
- Chinese: “卡爾王地群島”
- Czech: “země krále Karla”
- Danish: “Kong Karls Land”
- Dutch: “Kong Karls Land”
- Dutch: “Koning Karelland”
- Estonian: “Kuningas Karli maa”
- Finnish: “Kuningas Kaarlen maa”
- French: “Kong Karls Land”
- German: “König-Karl-Land”
- Hebrew: “ארץ המלך קרל”
- Italian: “Kong Karls Land”
- Japanese: “コングカルルス諸島”
- Latvian: “Karaļa Kārļa Zeme”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kong Karls Land”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kong Karls Land”
- Norwegian: “Kong Karls land”
- Polish: “Ziemia Króla Karola”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas do Rei Carlos”
- Pushto: “د پاچا کارلز سيمه”
- Russian: “Земля Короля Карла”
- Slovak: “Zem kráľa Karola”
- Spanish: “Islas del Rey Carlos”
- Swedish: “Kong Karls land”
- Turkish: “Kong Karls Land”
- Ukrainian: “Земля Короля Карла”
- Wu Chinese: “卡爾王地群島”
- Yue Chinese: “卡爾王地群島”
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