Hovgaard Island

Hovgaard Island is a large uninhabited island of the Greenland Sea, . The island was named after Andreas Hovgaard, a polar explorer and officer of the Danish Navy who led an expedition to the Kara Sea on steamship Dijmphna in 1882–83.
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  • Island
  • …lies at an elevation of 582 metres (1,909 feet)
  • Description: island in Greenland
  • Also known as
    “Hovgaard Ø”
    “Hovgaards Ø”
    “Hovgård Ø”
    “Hovgårds Ø”

Hovgaard Island

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Latitude
79.88333° or 79° 53′ north
Longitude
-18.66667° or 18° 40′ west
Open location code
CCF3V8MM+88
Geo­Names ID
2760296
Wiki­data ID
Q17518525

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Turkish—“Hovgaard Island” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Illa de Hovgaard (Groenlàndia)”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Hovgaard”
  • Cebuano: “Hovgaard Ø”
  • Chinese: “霍夫高島”
  • Danish: “Hovgaard Ø”
  • Dutch: “Hovgaard Ø”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هوڤجارد او”
  • Finnish: “Hovgaardinsaari”
  • French: “île Hovgaard”
  • French: “Île Hovgaard”
  • German: “Hovgaard Ø”
  • German: “Hovgaard-Insel”
  • Italian: “isola di Hovgaard”
  • Italian: “Isola di Hovgaard”
  • Swedish: “Hovgaard Ø”
  • Turkish: “Hovgaard Ø (Grönland)”

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