Schmidt Island
Schmidt Island is one of the islands of the Severnaya Zemlya group in the Russian Arctic. It was named after Soviet scientist and first head of the Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route, Otto Schmidt.
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Latitude
81.18222° or 81° 10′ 56″ north
Longitude
90.86694° or 90° 52′ 1″ east
Open location code
CMHG5VJ8+VQ
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Schmidt Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة شميدت”
- Asturian: “Islla Schmidt”
- Asturian: “Tierres del Norte”
- Azerbaijani: “Şmidt adası”
- Bulgarian: “Шмид”
- Catalan: “Illa de Schmidt”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Shmidta”
- Chinese: “施密特岛”
- Chinese: “施密特島”
- Czech: “Šmidtův ostrov”
- Dutch: “Schmidt”
- Estonian: “Šmidt”
- Estonian: “Šmidti saar”
- German: “Schmidt-Insel”
- Hungarian: “Smidt-sziget”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Schmidt”
- Italian: “Isola di Schmidt”
- Italian: “Isola Schmidt”
- Japanese: “シュミット島”
- Latvian: “Šmita sala”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ostrov Sjmidta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Schmidtøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Остров Шмидта”
- Persian: “جزیره شمیدتا”
- Polish: “Wyspa Szmidta”
- Russian: “Остров Шмидта”
- Russian: “Шмидта остров”
- Slovak: “Šmidtov ostrov”
- Spanish: “Isla Schmidt”
- Tatar: “Шмидт утравы”
- Turkish: “Schmidt Adası”
- Turkish: “Şmidt Adası”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Schmidt”
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