Kvalbeinøya ( en, Whale Bone Island) is the northwesternmost island in
Scareholmane, 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 ...
, 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 island derives its name from the fact that plains on the western side of the island (and part of the northern side) are covered with whale bones.
References
*Norwegian Polar Institut
Place Names of Svalbard Database
Islands of Svalbard
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