Hopen

Hopen is an island in the southeastern part of the archipelago. Hopen was discovered in 1596 by Jan Cornelisz Rijp during the third expedition by Willem Barentsz, trying to find the Northeast Passage.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in the southeastern part of the Svalbard archipelago, Norway
  • Also known as: ’t Verlaten Eylandt”, “Hoffnungs Island”, “Hoffnungs-Insel”, “Hoop Eylant”, “Hoopen Eylandt”, “Hooren Baij”, “Hope Island”, “Hopps-ön”, “Isle Esperance”, “Isola della Speranza”, “Isole Speranza”, “L’Île d’Esperance”, “l’isola Hope”, “Morskaya Loshad’”, “Nadezhda Ostrov”, “Ostrov Nadeždy”, “Ostrov Nadezhdy”, “Seahorse Island”, “Seepferd Island”, “Verlaten Eylant”, “Visch-Eylandt”, and “Walross Island

Hopen

Latitude
76.59031° or 76° 35′ 25″ north
Longitude
25.25207° or 25° 15′ 8″ east
Population
4
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
CG87H7R2+4R
Geo­Names ID
607314
Wiki­data ID
Q845873
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hopen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: هوبن
  • Asturian: Hopen
  • Azerbaijani: Hopen adası
  • Catalan: Hopen
  • Cebuano: Hopen
  • Chinese: 希望岛
  • Chinese: 希望島
  • Czech: Ostrov Naděje
  • Danish: Hopen
  • Dutch: Hopen
  • Egyptian Arabic: هوبن
  • Estonian: Hopen
  • Finnish: Hopen
  • French: Hopen
  • German: Hopen
  • Greek: Χόπεν
  • Hungarian: Hopen
  • Italian: Hopen
  • Japanese: ホーペン島
  • Korean: 호펜섬
  • Latvian: Cerības sala
  • Latvian: Hopen
  • Latvian: Hopena
  • Latvian: Hūpene
  • Lithuanian: Hopenas
  • Manx: Hopen
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Hopaværing
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Hopen
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Hopen
  • Norwegian: Hopen
  • Polish: Wyspa Nadziei
  • Portuguese: Hopen
  • Russian: Остров Надежды (архипелаг Шпицберген)
  • Russian: Остров Надежды
  • Russian: Хопен
  • Slovak: Hopen
  • Slovenian: Hopen
  • Spanish: Hopen
  • Swedish: Hopen, Svalbard
  • Swedish: Hopen
  • Turkish: Hopen
  • Ukrainian: Острів Надії
  • Vietnamese: Hopen
  • Wu Chinese: 希望島
  • Yue Chinese: 希望島

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