Bölscheøya ( en, Bölsche Island) is an island southwest of Negerpynten, the southeastern point 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-S ...

. It is part of

Thousand Islands The Thousand Islands (french: Mille-Îles) constitute a North American archipelago of 1,864 islands that straddles the Canada–US border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario. They stretch for abo ...

. The island was named in 1868 by the

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geographer August Petermann (1822–78) after the

journalist Carl Bölsche, father of the

writer and zoologist Wilhelm Bölsche (1843–93). The remains of a

whaling Whaling is the process of hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that became increasingly important in the Industrial Revolution. It was practiced as an organized industr ...

station (probably

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

) from the 17th century can be found on the island.

References

* Norwegian Polar Institute
Place names in Norwegian polar areas
* Bölsche-Lexiko

Islands of Svalbard Whaling stations in Norway Whaling in Norway Whaling in the Dutch Republic Former populated places in Svalbard {{svalbard-geo-stub