Bear Island

Bear Island, Norwegian Bjørnøya, is an islet in the Arctic Ocean, between and . The island has no permanent population, except some meteorology crew.
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  • Type: island
  • Description: southernmost island of the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago
  • Also known as: “Bjørnøya”

Bear Island

Latitude
74.425° or 74° 25′ 30″ north
Longitude
19.0366° or 19° 2′ 12″ east
Open location code
CF6XC2GP+2J
Wiki­data ID
Q194364
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Bear Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة الدب”
  • Armenian: “Արջի կղզի”
  • Asturian: “Bjørnøya”
  • Asturian: “Islla del Osu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ayı adası”
  • Basque: “Bjørnøya”
  • Basque: “Hartzen uhartea”
  • Belarusian: “Мядзведжы востраў”
  • Belarusian: “Мядзвежы востраў”
  • Belarusian: “Мядзьведжы востраў”
  • Breton: “Bjørnøya”
  • Bulgarian: “Мечи остров”
  • Bulgarian: “Мечи”
  • Catalan: “Bjørnøya”
  • Catalan: “Illa de l’Os”
  • Cebuano: “Bjørnøya (pulo sa Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Svalbard, Bjørnøya)”
  • Cebuano: “Bjørnøya”
  • Chinese: “熊岛”
  • Chinese: “熊島”
  • Croatian: “Medvjeđi otok”
  • Czech: “Bjørnøya”
  • Czech: “Medvědí ostrov”
  • Danish: “Bjørneøen”
  • Danish: “Bjørnøya”
  • Dutch: “Bereneiland”
  • Dutch: “Bjornoya”
  • Dutch: “Bjørnøya”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره الدب”
  • Esperanto: “Urso-insulo”
  • Estonian: “Bjørnøya”
  • Estonian: “Karusaar”
  • Faroese: “Bjarnoyggin”
  • Finnish: “Karhusaari”
  • French: “Bjornoya”
  • French: “Bjørnøya”
  • French: “Ile aux Ours”
  • French: “île aux Ours”
  • French: “Île aux Ours”
  • French: “Réserve naturelle de Bjørnøya”
  • Galician: “Illa do Oso”
  • German: “Bären-Insel”
  • German: “Bäreninsel”
  • German: “Bjornoya”
  • German: “Bjørnøya”
  • Greek: “Μπγιέρνεγια”
  • Hebrew: “אי הדובים”
  • Hebrew: “ביירנייה”
  • Hungarian: “Bjørnøya”
  • Icelandic: “Bjarnarey”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Beruang”
  • Italian: “Bjornoya”
  • Italian: “Bjørnøya”
  • Italian: “isola degli Orsi”
  • Italian: “Isola degli Orsi”
  • Japanese: “ビュルネイ島”
  • Japanese: “ベア島”
  • Korean: “비에르뇌위아섬”
  • Korean: “비오르뇌야 섬”
  • Korean: “비오르뇌야”
  • Korean: “비외르뇌야 섬”
  • Korean: “비외르뇌야”
  • Latvian: “Bjørnøya”
  • Latvian: “Lāču sala”
  • Limburgan: “Baereneilandj”
  • Lithuanian: “Lokių sala”
  • Luxembourgish: “Biereninsel”
  • Manx: “Bjornoya”
  • Manx: “Bjørnøya”
  • Manx: “Ellan ny Maghouinyn”
  • Northern Frisian: “Baar Eilun”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bjørnøya”
  • Northern Sami: “Bjørnøya”
  • Northern Sami: “Guovžasuolu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bjørnøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beeren Eiland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bjørnøya”
  • Norwegian: “Bjørnøya”
  • Persian: “جزیره خرس”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Niedźwiedzia”
  • Portuguese: “Björnöya”
  • Portuguese: “Bjørnøya”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha do Urso”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha dos Ursos”
  • Pushto: “يږ ټاپو”
  • Romanian: “Insula Bear”
  • Romanian: “Insula Urșilor”
  • Russian: “Медвежий”
  • Serbian: “Медвеђе острво”
  • Slovak: “Medvedí ostrov”
  • Slovenian: “Bjørnøya”
  • Slovenian: “Medvedji otok”
  • Spanish: “Bjornoya”
  • Spanish: “Bjornøya”
  • Spanish: “Bjørnøya”
  • Spanish: “Isla del Oso”
  • Swahili: “Kisiwa cha Dubu”
  • Swedish: “Beeren Eiland”
  • Swedish: “Björnön”
  • Swedish: “Bjornoya”
  • Swedish: “Björnöya”
  • Swedish: “Bjørnøya”
  • Tatar: “Бьёрнёйа”
  • Turkish: “Ayı Adası”
  • Turkish: “Bear Adası”
  • Turkish: “Bjørnøya”
  • Ukrainian: “Ведмежий острів”
  • Urdu: “بیورنویا”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Gấu”
  • Welsh: “Bjørnøya”
  • Welsh: “Ynys yr Eirth”
  • Western Frisian: “Beare-eilân”
  • Western Frisian: “Beareëilân”
  • Western Frisian: “Beareneilân”
  • Wu Chinese: “熊島”
  • Yue Chinese: “熊島”
  • “Bjørnøya”

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