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.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Island
  • Description: island
  • Also known as: “Ostrov Sverdrup”, “Sverdrup (eiland)”, “Sverdrup-eiland”, “Svordrup Island”, “Востраў Свярдруп”, and “Остров Свердруп”

Sverdrup Island

Latitude
74.55639° or 74° 33′ 23″ north
Longitude
79.45389° or 79° 27′ 14″ east
Open location code
CJ6XHF43+HH
Geo­Names ID
1490536
Wiki­data ID
Q1579629
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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: “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”
  • 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: “Sverdrupøya”
  • Norwegian: “Sverdrupøya”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Sverdrupa”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Sverdrup”
  • Russian: “Остров Свердрупа”
  • Spanish: “Isla Sverdrup”
  • Turkish: “Sverdrup Adası”

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