Isisøyane is a group of small islands east of Nordaustlandet,

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 ...

. They were earlier regarded to be part of Nordaustlandet, an ice free point named

Isispynten Isispynten is the most eastern point of Isisøyane, east of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. It was earlier regarded as a headland of Nordaustlandet, but after the retreat of Austfonna Austfonna is an ice cap located on Nordaustlandet in the Svalbar ...

. After the retreat of

Austfonna Austfonna is an ice cap located on Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Covering an area of 7,800 km2, it is Europe's third-largest glacier by area and volume, after the Severny Island ice cap of Novaya Zemlya, Russia, and Va ...

, the islands appeared as islands. They were named Isisøyane in 2009.

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