Sverdrup Island
Sverdrup Island is an isolated Russian island in the southern region of the Kara Sea. Sverdrup Island is named after Norwegian polar explorer and ship Captain Otto Sverdrup who sighted it on 18 August 1893 during the Fram Expedition led by Fridtjof Nansen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island
- Also known as: “Ostrov Sverdrup”, “Svordrup Island”, and “Остров Свердрупа”
Sverdrup Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Sverdrup Island” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Islla Sverdrup”
- Azerbaijani: “Sverdrup adası”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Свердруп”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Свярдруп”
- Belarusian: “Свердруп”
- Catalan: “ostrov Sverdrup”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Sverdrupa”
- Chinese: “斯韋德魯普島”
- Chinese: “斯韦德鲁普岛”
- Czech: “Sverdrupův ostrov”
- Dutch: “Ostrov Sverdroepa”
- Dutch: “Sverdrup (eiland)”
- Dutch: “Sverdrup-eiland”
- Finnish: “Sverdrupin saari”
- French: “île Sverdrup”
- French: “Île Sverdrup”
- German: “Sverdrup-Insel”
- Italian: “isola di Sverdrup”
- Italian: “Isola di Sverdrup”
- Japanese: “スヴェルドラップ島”
- Latvian: “Sverdrupa sala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sverdrupøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ostrov Sverdrupa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sverdrupøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Остров Свердрупа”
- Norwegian: “Sverdrupøya”
- Polish: “Wyspa Sverdrupa”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Sverdrup”
- Russian: “Остров Свердруп”
- Russian: “Остров Свердрупа”
- Russian: “Свердруп”
- Spanish: “Isla Sverdrup”
- Turkish: “Sverdrup Adası”
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