Native name: Nedrevågøya | |
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  Nedrevaag Island | |
| Geography | |
| Coordinates | 78°56′00″N 21°11′00″E / 78.933333°N 21.183333°E |
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Norway | |
Nedrevaag Island[1][2] (Norwegian: Nedrevågøya)[3] is one of the Rønnbeck Islands in the Svalbard archipelago. It lies in Hinlopen Strait northeast of Cape Weyprecht on Spitsbergen. The island is a low basalt cliff and its highest point is only 17 meters (56 ft) above sea level. The closest neighboring islands are neighboring Simonsen Island about 500 meters (1,600 ft) to the northeast and Carlsen Island about 2.4 kilometers (1.5 mi) to the west. The wildlife consists largely of polar bears.
The island was discovered in 1867 by the Swedish-Norwegian polar explorer Nils Fredrik Rønnbeck. It is named after A. O. Nedrevaag, a Norwegian skipper that carried out geographical and meteorological observations in 1870 for the Kara Sea and Novaya Zemlya while on board the Johanne Marie.[3][4][5]
- ^ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: Geographical Names.
- ^ Norway, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names. 1963. Washington, DC: Office of Geography, p. 952.
- ^ a b Stadnamn i norske polarområde: Nedrevågøya (Svalbard).
- ^ Smits, Jan. 2004. Petermann's Maps: Carto-Bibliography of the Maps in Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen 1855–1945, Volume 1. 't Goy-Houten: HES & de Graaf, p. 150.
- ^ August Petermann, Wilhelm von Freeden, & Adolf Mühry. 1871. Papers on the Eastern and Northern Extensions of the Gulf Stream. Washington: Government Printing Office, pp. 387ff.