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Fuglesongen (The Bird Song) is an island in
Albert I Land Albert I Land is the land area of the northwestern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is bordered by Haakon VII Land to the southeast. To the northeast lies Raudfjorden and its inner branch, Klinckowströmfjorden, to the southeast Krossfjor ...
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Spitsbergen Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norw ...
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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 ...
. It has an area of about , and is located in the archipelago of
Nordvestøyane Nordvestøyane (The Northwestern Islands) is an archipelago in Albert I Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Among the islands in the group are Fuglesongen (4.1 km2) and Klovningen Klovningen is an island in Albert I Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. ...
. Its highest peak is above sea level. It is named after its large number of birds, among which the
little auk The little auk or dovekie (''Alle alle'') is a small auk, the only member of the genus ''Alle''. ''Alle'' is the Sami name of the long-tailed duck; it is onomatopoeic and imitates the call of the drake duck. Linnaeus was not particularly famil ...
is particularly common.


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Islands of Svalbard {{svalbard-geo-stub