Barentsøya

Barentsøya, anglicized as Barents Island, is an Arctic in the archipelago of , lying between and . To the north, in the sound between Barentsøya and Spitsbergen, lies the island of .
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  • Island
  • …lies at an elevation of 405 metres (1,329 feet)
  • Description: island in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway
  • Also known as
    “Bären-Island”
    “Barents Island”
    “Barents Land”
    “Barents Øy”
    “Barents-Maa”
    “Berensland”
    “Lorentzland”
    “South East Land”
    “Sydostland”
    “Zuyd Ooster Land”

Barentsøya

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Latitude
78.42002° or 78° 25′ 12″ north
Longitude
21.17419° or 21° 10′ 27″ east
Open location code
CGC3C5CF+2M
Open­Street­Map ID
way 25123687
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
607463
Wiki­data ID
Q373190

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Barentsøya” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بارنتسويا”
  • Asturian: “Barents”
  • Asturian: “Islla de Barents”
  • Azerbaijani: “Barens adası”
  • Belarusian: “востраў Барэнца”
  • Bulgarian: “Баренц (остров)”
  • Bulgarian: “Баренц”
  • Catalan: “illa de Barents”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Barents”
  • Cebuano: “Barentsøya”
  • Chinese: “巴倫支島”
  • Czech: “Barentsův ostrov”
  • Danish: “Barentsøya”
  • Dutch: “Barentszeiland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بارينتسويا”
  • Esperanto: “Barentsøya”
  • Estonian: “Barentsi saar”
  • Finnish: “Barentsinsaari”
  • French: “Barentsøya”
  • French: “Île de Barents”
  • Galician: “Barentsøya”
  • German: “Barentsinsel”
  • German: “Barentsøya”
  • Greek: “Μπάρεντσεγια”
  • Greek: “Νήσος Μπάρεντς”
  • Hungarian: “Barents-sziget”
  • Icelandic: “Barentseyja”
  • Italian: “Barentsøya”
  • Japanese: “バレンツ島”
  • Korean: “바렌트쇠위아 섬”
  • Korean: “바렌트쇠위아섬”
  • Latvian: “Barenca sala”
  • Lithuanian: “Barenco sala”
  • Macedonian: “Баренцов Остров”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barentsøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Barentsøya”
  • Norwegian: “Barentsøya”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Barentsa”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Barents”
  • Russian: “Остров Баренца (архипелаг Шпицберген)”
  • Russian: “остров Баренца”
  • Russian: “Остров Баренца”
  • Slovak: “Barentsov ostrov”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Barents”
  • Swedish: “Barentsøya”
  • Turkish: “Barentsøya”
  • Ukrainian: “острів Баренца”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Баренца”
  • Vietnamese: “Barentsøya”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴倫支島”

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