Danes Island[1][2][3] (Norwegian: Danskøya) is an island in Norway's Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean with an area of 40.6 km2 (15.7 sq mi).[4] It lies just off the northwest coast of Spitsbergen, the largest island in the archipelago, near to Magdalenefjorden.[5] Just to the north lies Amsterdam Island. Most of Svalbard's islands, including Danes Island, are uninhabited; only Spitsbergen, Bjørnøya and Hopen have settlements.[6]
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- ^ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: Geographical Names.
- ^ Peter Joseph Capelotti. 1999. By Airship to the North Pole: An Archaeology of Human Exploration. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, pp. xii ff.
- ^ "Place names in Norwegian polar areas - Danskøya". Norsk Polar Institute. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
- ^ Location information from Spitsbergen North Archived 2006-06-15 at the Wayback Machine. Svalbard-images.com (URL accessed 24 July 2006)
- ^ "Svalbard: General". Norwegian Polar Institute. 27 May 2004. Archived from the original on 2006-12-05.