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Edward Island ( da, Edvard Ø) is an uninhabited island of the
Greenland Sea The Greenland Sea is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south. The Greenland Sea is often defined as p ...
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Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is t ...
. The island is
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Geography

Edward Island is a coastal island located east of
Queen Louise Land Queen Louise Land ( da, Dronning Louise Land; kl, Nuna Dronning Louise) is a vast mountainous region located west of Dove Bay, King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Par ...
, off
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, east of
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and north of
Godfred Hansen Island Godfred Hansen Island is an uninhabited island of the Greenland Sea, Greenland. History Formerly known as Olga Island ''(Olgas Ø)'' —the name used by C.S. Poulsen— and ''Ragnas Ø'' —the name used by Henning Bistrup— at the time 1906–0 ...
in the
Dove Bay Dove Bay ( da, Dove Bugt) is a bay in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park area. Etymology Dove bay is said to have been the legendary ''Breidifjòrdr'' of the Sagas of Icelanders. ...
, northeastern Greenland. The island has an area of and a shoreline of .UNEP
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See also

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List of islands of Greenland The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. Many of these islands have both a Kalaallisut language name and a European language name. Islands and archipelagoes * Aaluik * Aasiaat Archipelago * Achton Friis Islands * A ...


References

Uninhabited islands of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub