Meinickeøyane
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Meinickeøyane is an island group composed of two islets, Store Meinickeøya
and Vesle Meinickeøya
, that form part of Tusenøyane
, an island group south of Edgeøya
, part of the Svalbard
archipelago. They were named after the German
geographer Carl Eduard Meinicke (1803-76).
Store Meinickeøya
Store Meinickeøya is the largest island in Meinickeøyane, part of Tusenøyane, an island group south of Edgeøya.-References:* Norwegian Polar Institute...
and Vesle Meinickeøya
Vesle Meinickeøya
Vesle Meinickeøya is the smaller of the two islands that comprise Meinickeøyane, part of Tusenøyane, an island group south of Edgeøya.-References:* Norwegian Polar Institute...
, that form part of Tusenøyane
Tusenøyane
Tusenøyane is a group of small islands south of Edgeøya. They form part of the Svalbard archipelago. The group consists of over forty islands and islets, including Brotskjer, Kulstadholmane, Utsira, Tufsen, Kong Ludvigøyane, Bölscheøya, Hornøya, Tiholmane, Meinickeøyane, Sletteøya, Schareholmane,...
, an island group south of Edgeøya
Edgeøya
Edgeøya, occasionally anglicised as Edge Island, is an uninhabited Norwegian island in southeast of the Svalbard archipelago; it is the third largest island in this archipelago. An Arctic island, it forms part of the South East Svalbard Nature Reserve, home to polar bears and reindeer. Its eastern...
, part of the Svalbard
Svalbard
Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic, constituting the northernmost part of Norway. It is located north of mainland Europe, midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The group of islands range from 74° to 81° north latitude , and from 10° to 35° east longitude. Spitsbergen is the...
archipelago. They were named after the German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
geographer Carl Eduard Meinicke (1803-76).