Menkeøyane ( en, Menke Islands) is a small
Norwegian
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island group south of
Halvmåneøya, an island off the southeast coast 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 ...
. The group includes
Havella Havella ( en, The Long-tailed Duck) is the largest islet in Menkeøyane, part of Thousand Islands, a Norwegian archipelago south of Edgeøya. It is named after the long-tailed duck (''Clangula hyemalis''), a migrant to Svalbard
Svalbard ( ...
,
Alka,
Gassen Gassen ( en, The Gander) is the westernmost of the large islets in Menkeøyane, part of Thousand Islands, a Norwegian archipelago south of Edgeøya
Edgeøya (), occasionally anglicised as Edge Island, is a Norwegian island located in southeast o ...
,
Teisten,
Islomen and
Blåmåken. They comprise part of
Thousand Islands
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. The islands are named after the
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cartographer and historical geographer
Heinrich Theodor Menke
Heinrich Theodor Menke (24 May 1819 – 14 May 1892) was a German geographer, who was born and lived in Bremen. He is remembered for his work in historical geography.
Menke studied theology and philology at the University of Bonn, and in 1842 rec ...
(1819–92). The islands appear on the Muscovy Company's map (1625), one of which is labeled ''Heling I''.
References
* Norwegian Polar Institut
Place Names of Svalbard Database*Purchas, S. 1625. Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and others. Volumes XIII and XIV (Reprint 1906 J. Maclehose and sons).
Islands of Svalbard
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