Hovgaard Island
Hovgaard Island is a large uninhabited island of the Greenland Sea, Greenland. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Greenland
- Also known as: “Hovgaard O”, “Hovgaard Ø”, “Hovgaards Ø”, “Hovgård Ø”, and “Hovgårds Ø”
Hovgaard Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Greenland, North America
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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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