Brækmoholmane ( en, Brækmo Islands) is an island group composed of three islands,
Store Brækmoholmen,
Trønderen and
Alkekongen. They form part of
Thousand Islands
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, an archipelago south of
Edgeøya
Edgeøya (), occasionally anglicised as Edge Island, is a Norwegian island located in southeast of the Svalbard archipelago; with an area of , it is the third-largest island in this archipelago. An Arctic island, it forms part of the Søraust-Sva ...
. The islands are named after the
Norwegian
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*Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe
* Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway
* Demographics of Norway
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sailor and fisherman
Sivert Brækmo (1853-1930), who visited
Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), also known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it is about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range ...
regularly between 1876 and 1895.
References
* Norwegian Polar Institut
Place Names of Svalbard Database
Islands of Svalbard
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