Bölscheøya
Bölscheøya is an island southwest of Svarthuken, the southeastern point of Edgeøya, Norway. It is part of Thousand Islands. The island was named in 1868 by the German geographer August Petermann after the German journalist Carl Bölsche, father of the German writer and zoologist Wilhelm Bölsche.- Island
- Description: island in Norway
- Also known as“Boelscheoya”“Bölsche Island”
- Categories
- Location
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Latitude
77.22215° or 77° 13′ 20″ north
Longitude
22.00325° or 22° 0′ 12″ east
Open location code
CG9462C3+V8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Bölscheøya” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Bölscheøya”
- Cebuano: “Bölscheøya”
- Dutch: “Bölscheøya”
- French: “Bölscheøya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bölscheøya”
- Norwegian: “Bölscheøya”
- Russian: “Бёльшеойя”
- Russian: “Бёльшеэйа”
- Swedish: “Bölscheøya”
- Turkish: “Bölscheøya”
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