Sørkappøya
Sørkappøya is an uninhabited 7 km long island of Greenland Sea at the southern tip of Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago. Five kilometers north of the island is Sørkapp, the southern cape of Spitsbergen's main island.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Norway
- Also known as: “Ile du Grand Duc Constantin”, “Južnaija Ostrova”, “L’île du Cap Sud”, “Ostrov Velikago Knjaza Konstantina”, “Ronde Klip Insel”, “Sørkap Øya”, “Sorkappoya”, “South Cape Island”, “Storø”, “Storøen”, and “Sydkapøya”
Sørkappøya
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Svalbard, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
76.49436° or 76° 29′ 40″ north
Longitude
16.54799° or 16° 32′ 53″ east
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Open location code
CF8RFGVX+P5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Sørkappøya from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Turkish—“Sørkappøya” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Syorkappyoya adası”
- Azerbaijani: “Syorppyoya adası”
- Catalan: “Sørkappøya”
- Cebuano: “Sørkappøya”
- Danish: “Sørkappøya”
- Dutch: “Sørkappøya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sørkappøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sørkappøya”
- Norwegian: “Sørkappøya”
- Russian: “Остров Южного Мыса”
- Russian: “Сёркаппёйа”
- Turkish: “Sørkappøya”
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