Torkildsen Island ( no, Torkildsenøya)Stadnamn i norske polarområde: Skipperøya (Svalbard).
/ref> is a small island in

Hinlopen Strait The Hinlopen Strait ( no, Hinlopenstretet) is the strait between Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet in Svalbard, Norway. It is long and wide. The strait is difficult to pass because of pack ice. It is believed to have been named after Thijmen J ...

. It is part of the

Rønnbeck Islands The Rønnbeck Islands ( no, Rønnbeckøyane) are a group of islands in Hinlopen Strait, Svalbard. They are located south of the Bastian Islands, southeast of Wilhelm Island. The islands are named after Norwegian sailor and seal hunter Nils Fredrik ...

in the

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 ...

archipelago. It lies east of Cape Weyprecht on

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 ...

. The island is a low basalt cliff and its highest point is above sea level. It is elongated and consists of four parts. At its east and west ends there are two small peninsulas. The central part of the island itself is divided into two parts by a narrow area, probably a sandbank like that at

Kiepert Island Kiepert Island ( no, Kiepertøya) is the second-largest of the Bastian Islands in the Svalbard archipelago. It lies east of Wilhelm Island and northeast of Spitsbergen. The island consists of two parts: an eastern part with a length of about wit ...

in the nearby Bastian Islands. The closest neighboring islands are Mack Island about to the west and Isaksen Island about to the northwest. The wildlife consists largely of polar bears. The island was discovered in 1867 by the Swedish-Norwegian polar explorer

Nils Fredrik Rønnbeck Nils Fredrik Røn(n)beck ( sv, Rönnbäck, March 22, 1820 – January 4, 1891) was a Swedish-Norwegian polar skipper and ice pilot. He discovered Franz Josef Land in 1865. Life Rønnbeck was born Nils Johansson Söderlund in Storön in Kalix, in ...

. The Rønnbeck Islands are named after Norwegian seal hunters, and this one is named after the sealing skipper T. Torkildsen.''The Place Names of Svalbard''. 2003. Tromsø: Norwegian Polar Institute, p. 456.

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