Schareholmane ( en, Schare Islands or ''Schare Islets'') is a group of three larger and a few smaller islets east of
Tiholmane, 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 group includes
Blokkøya,
Kvalbeinøya and
Havmerra. The islets are named after Christian Schare, who, along with four others, was forced to overwinter here after they had lost their ship on September 3, 1833. All but one (who had died) were saved on June 22, 1834.
References
* Norwegian Polar Institut
Place Names of Svalbard Database
Islands of Svalbard
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