Bölscheøya ( en, Bölsche Island) is an island southwest of Negerpynten, the southeastern point 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- ...

. It is part of Thousand Islands. The island was named in 1868 by the

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geographer August Petermann (1822–78) after the

journalist Carl Bölsche, father of the

writer and zoologist

Wilhelm Bölsche Wilhelm Bölsche (2 January 1861 – 31 August 1939) was a German author, editor and publicist. He was among the early promoters of nature conservation and committed to popularizing science. Life Bölsche was born in Cologne on 2 January 186 ...

(1843–93). The remains of a

whaling Whaling is the process of hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that became increasingly important in the Industrial Revolution. It was practiced as an organized industry ...

station (probably Dutch) from the 17th century can be found on the island.

References

* Norwegian Polar Institute
Place names in Norwegian polar areas
* Bölsche-Lexiko

Islands of Svalbard Whaling stations in Norway Whaling in Norway Whaling in the Dutch Republic Former populated places in Svalbard {{svalbard-geo-stub