Kuhn Island

Kuhn Island is a coastal island in , eastern . There are coal deposits on the island. The island was discovered by the Second German North Polar Expedition and is named after Franz Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld, the Austro-Hungarian minister of war, who was a patron of the expedition's cartographer, Julius von Payer.
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Photo: Carl Koldewey, Public domain.
  • Type: Island
  • Description: isle in Greenland
  • Also known as: “Kuhn O”, “Kuhn Ø”, “Kuhnön”, and “Kunoøya”

Kuhn Island

Latitude
74.85103° or 74° 51′ 4″ north
Longitude
-20.26703° or 20° 16′ 1″ west
Elevation
600 metres (1,969 feet)
Open location code
C96XVP2M+C5
Geo­Names ID
3422251
Wiki­data ID
Q1791259
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Kuhn Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة كوهن”
  • Asturian: “Islla Khun”
  • Asturian: “Islla Kuhn”
  • Catalan: “Illa Kuhn”
  • Cebuano: “Kuhn Ø”
  • Chinese: “庫恩島”
  • Dutch: “Kuhn Ø”
  • Galician: “Illa Kuhn”
  • German: “Kuhn Ø”
  • German: “Kuhn-Insel”
  • Italian: “Kuhn Ø”
  • Japanese: “Kuhn島”
  • Japanese: “クーン島”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Kuhn”
  • Swedish: “Kuhn Ø”
  • Turkish: “Kuhn Adası (Grönland)”

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