Brækmoholmane () is an island group composed of three islands,
Store Brækmoholmen,
Trønderen and
Alkekongen. They form part of
Thousand Islands
The Thousand Islands (, ) 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 about downstream fr ...
, an archipelago south of
Edgeøya
Edgeøya (), anglicised as Edge Island, is a Norway, 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-Svalbard ...
. The islands are named after the
Norwegian sailor and fisherman
Sivert Brækmo (1853-1930), who visited
Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. North of continental Europe, mainland Europe, it lies about midway be ...
regularly between 1876 and 1895.
References
* Norwegian Polar Institut
Place Names of Svalbard Database
Islands of Svalbard
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