Hornøya

Hornøya is a small, 0.4 square kilometres, uninhabited in in county, . It lies in the Barents Sea, just east of the larger island of where the town of is located. is situated at the highest point of the island, at an elevation of 65 metres above sea level, and it protects the shipping lanes around the town of Vardø.
Wikipedia
Photo: Olavfin, FAL.
  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Vardø municipality, Norway
  • Also known as: “Hornö”, “Hornöen”, and “Hornøy”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hornøya og Reinøya and Vardøhus Fortress.

Nature reserve
Photo: Onioram, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a nature reserve.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, called "Wardhouse" in English historical navigations, is located in in county, . It is located in the town of on the island of on the Barents Sea near the mouth of the in northeastern near the border. is situated 3 km southwest of Hornøya.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a parish church of the Church of Norway in in county, . It is located in the on the island of . is situated 2½ km southwest of Hornøya.

Hornøya

Latitude
70.38727° or 70° 23′ 14″ north
Longitude
31.15657° or 31° 9′ 24″ east
Open location code
CG2H95P4+WJ
Geo­Names ID
779545
Wiki­data ID
Q3735119
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In Other Languages

From Afar to Zulu—“Hornøya” goes by many names.
  • Afar: “Hornøya”
  • Afrikaans: “Hornøya”
  • Akan: “Hornøya”
  • Albanian: “Hornøya”
  • Aragonese: “Hornøya”
  • Arpitan: “Hornøya”
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  • Basque: “Hornøya”
  • Bavarian: “Hornøya”
  • Bislama: “Hornøya”
  • Bosnian: “Hornøya”
  • Brahui: “Hornøya”
  • Breton: “Hornøya”
  • Catalan: “Hornøya”
  • Cebuano: “Hornøya”
  • Central Bikol: “Hornøya”
  • Chamorro: “Hornøya”
  • Chavacano: “Hornøya”
  • Cherokee: “Hornøya”
  • Cheyenne: “Hornøya”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Hornøya”
  • Choctaw: “Hornøya”
  • Corsican: “Hornøya”
  • Cree: “Hornøya”
  • Creek: “Hornøya”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Hornøya”
  • Croatian: “Hornøya”
  • Czech: “Hornøya”
  • Danish: “Hornøy”
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  • Dimli (individual language): “Hornøya”
  • Dutch: “Hornøya”
  • Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: “Hornøya”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هورنويا”
  • Esperanto: “Hornøya”
  • Estonian: “Hornoya”
  • Estonian: “Hornöya”
  • Estonian: “Hornøya”
  • Ewe: “Hornøya”
  • Extremaduran: “Hornøya”
  • Faroese: “Hornøya”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Hornøya”
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  • Finnish: “Hornøy”
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  • Ganda: “Hornøya”
  • German: “Hornøy”
  • German: “Hornøya”
  • Gheg Albanian: “Hornøya”
  • Gothic: “Hornøya”
  • Guarani: “Hornøya”
  • Haitian: “Hornøya”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hornøya”
  • Hausa: “Hornøya”
  • Hawaiian: “Hornøya”
  • Herero: “Hornøya”
  • Hiri Motu: “Hornøya”
  • Hungarian: “Hornøya”
  • Icelandic: “Hornøya”
  • Ido: “Hornøya”
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  • Iloko: “Hornøya”
  • Indonesian: “Hornøya”
  • Interlingua: “Hornøya”
  • Interlingue: “Hornøya”
  • Inuktitut: “Hornøya”
  • Inupiaq: “Hornøya”
  • Irish: “Hornøya”
  • Italian: “Hornøya”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Hornøya”
  • Japanese: “ホルノー”
  • Javanese: “Hornøya”
  • Kabyle: “Hornøya”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Hornøya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Hornøya”
  • Kanuri: “Hornøya”
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  • Kazakh: “Hornøya”
  • Kikuyu: “Hornøya”
  • Kinaray-A: “Hornøya”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Hornøya”
  • Kölsch: “Hornøya”
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  • Kurdish: “Hornøya”
  • Ladino: “Hornøya”
  • Latgalian: “Hornøya”
  • Latin: “Hornøya”
  • Latvian: “Hornøya”
  • Laz: “Hornøya”
  • Ligurian: “Hornøya”
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  • Lingala: “Hornøya”
  • Lithuanian: “Hornøya”
  • Lojban: “Hornøya”
  • Lombard: “Hornøya”
  • Low German: “Hornøya”
  • Lower Silesian: “Hornøya”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Hornøya”
  • Lozi: “Hornøya”
  • Lushai: “Hornøya”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hornøya”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Hornøya”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Hornøya”
  • Malay: “Hornøya”
  • Maltese: “Hornøya”
  • Maori: “Hornøya”
  • Mapudungun: “Hornøya”
  • Megleno Romanian: “Hornøya”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hornøya”
  • Minangkabau: “Hornøya”
  • Mirandese: “Hornøya”
  • Narom: “Hornøya”
  • Nauru: “Hornøya”
  • Navajo: “Hornøya”
  • Ndonga: “Hornøya”
  • Neapolitan: “Hornøya”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hornøya”
  • Northern Sami: “Hornøya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hornøy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hornøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hornøy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hornøya”
  • Norwegian: “Hornøya”
  • Novial: “Hornøya”
  • Nyanja: “Hornøya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hornøya”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hornøya”
  • Oromo: “Hornøya”
  • Pampanga: “Hornøya”
  • Pangasinan: “Hornøya”
  • Pedi: “Hornøya”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Hornøya”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Hornøya”
  • Picard: “Hornøya”
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  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Hornøya”
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  • Polish: “Hornøya”
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  • Rundi: “Hornøya”
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  • Samogitian: “Hornøya”
  • Sango: “Hornøya”
  • Santali: “Hornøya”
  • Sardinian: “Hornøya”
  • Sassarese Sardinian: “Hornøya”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Hornøya”
  • Scots: “Hornøya”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hornøya”
  • Serbian: “Hornøya”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hornøya”
  • Seri: “Hornøya”
  • Shona: “Hornøya”
  • Sicilian: “Hornøya”
  • Silesian: “Hornøya”
  • Slovak: “Hornøya”
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  • Somali: “Hornøya”
  • Southern Sami: “Hornøya”
  • Southern Sotho: “Hornøya”
  • Spanish: “Hornoya”
  • Spanish: “Hornøya”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Hornøya”
  • Swahili: “Hornøya”
  • Swedish: “Hornøy”
  • Swedish: “Hornøya”
  • Swiss German: “Hornøya”
  • Tachelhit: “Hornøya”
  • Tagalog: “Hornøya”
  • Tahitian: “Hornøya”
  • Tajik: “Hornøya”
  • Tarifit: “Hornøya”
  • Tatar: “Hornøya”
  • Tetum: “Hornøya”
  • Tok Pisin: “Hornøya”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Hornøya”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Hornøya”
  • Tsonga: “Hornøya”
  • Tswana: “Hornøya”
  • Tumbuka: “Hornøya”
  • Turkish: “Hornøya”
  • Turkmen: “Hornøya”
  • Turoyo: “Hornøya”
  • Uighur: “Hornøya”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Hornøya”
  • Uzbek: “Hornøya”
  • Venda: “Hornøya”
  • Venetian: “Hornøya”
  • Veps: “Hornøya”
  • Vietnamese: “Hornøya”
  • Vlaams: “Hornøya”
  • Vlax Romani: “Hornøya”
  • Volapük: “Hornøya”
  • Votic: “Hornøya”
  • Walloon: “Hornøya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hornøya”
  • Welsh: “Hornøya”
  • Western Frisian: “Hornøya”
  • Wolof: “Hornøya”
  • Xhosa: “Hornøya”
  • Yoruba: “Hornøya”
  • Zeeuws: “Hornøya”
  • Zhuang: “Hornøya”
  • Zulu: “Hornøya”
  • “Hornøya”

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