Barents Island

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Barentsøya/Barents Island
Geography
Location	Arctic Ocean
Coordinates	78°25′N 21°27′E / 78.417, 21.45Coordinates: 78°25′N 21°27′E / 78.417, 21.45
Archipelago	Svalbard
Area	1,288 km², 558 km² glaciated.
Highest point	Schweinfurthberget 590 m (1,936 ft)
Administration
Norway
Demographics
Population	0

Barents Island (Norwegian: Barentsøya) is one of the smaller islands in the Svalbard archipelago, lying between Edge Island (Edgeøya) and Spitsbergen. It has no permanent inhabitants. Named for the Dutch explorer Willem Barents, it is a part of Norway.

An Arctic island, around half its area of 1288 km² is glaciated. To the north, in the sound between Barentsøya and Spitsbergen, lies the island of Kükenthaløya. To the south, the sound separating Barents Island from Edgeøya is Freemansundet.

[edit] See also

• List of islands of Norway

[edit] External links

• Barentsøya on Svalbard Images. (URL accessed 24 July 2006)

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