Norway
Svalbard
Spitsbergen

Danes Island

Danes Island is an island in Norway's archipelago in the Arctic Ocean with an area of 40.6 km2. It lies just off the northwest coast of , the largest island in the archipelago, near to .
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island
  • Also known as: “Danaeyju”, “Danish Island”, “Danskeøya”, “Danskøya”, “Dánsky Ostrov”, “Datskija Ostrova”, “Deenes Eiland”, “Deensche Eyl”, “Denen-Eiland”, “Ile des Danois”, “Isle de Deens”, “Isola dei Danesi”, “Isola del Golfo”, and “Tanskan”

Danes Island

Latitude
79.68587° or 79° 41′ 9″ north
Longitude
10.89822° or 10° 53′ 54″ east
Elevation
150 metres (492 feet)
Open location code
CFFGMVPX+87
Open­Street­Map ID
way 27318602
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
2731547
Wiki­data ID
Q1164932
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“Danes Island” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Danskøya”
  • Asturian: “Islla Danskøya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Danimarka adası”
  • Catalan: “Danskøya”
  • Catalan: “Illa Danesa”
  • Cebuano: “Danskøya”
  • Danish: “Danskøya”
  • Dutch: “Danskøya”
  • Esperanto: “Daninsulo”
  • Estonian: “Danskoya”
  • Estonian: “Dansköya”
  • Estonian: “Danskøya”
  • French: “Danskoya”
  • French: “Danskøya”
  • German: “Däneninsel”
  • German: “Danskoya”
  • German: “Danskøya”
  • Icelandic: “Danska eyja”
  • Italian: “Danskøya”
  • Latvian: “Danskeja”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Danskøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Danskøya”
  • Norwegian: “Danskøya”
  • Portuguese: “Danskøya”
  • Russian: “Датский (архипелаг Шпицберген)”
  • Russian: “Датский остров”
  • Russian: “Датский”
  • Russian: “Остров Датский”
  • Spanish: “Danskoya”
  • Spanish: “Danskøya”
  • Swedish: “Danskön”
  • Swedish: “Dansköya”
  • Swedish: “Danskøya”
  • Turkish: “Danes Adası”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Danes Island”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.