Chermsideøya (English: ''Chermside Island'') is a 14 km² island north of

Nordaustlandet Nordaustlandet (Anglicised as North East Land) is the second-largest island in the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, with an area of . It lies north east of Spitsbergen, separated by Hinlopen Strait. Much of Nordaustlandet lies under large ice ca ...

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 ...

. It is separated from Nordaustlandet by the 1–2 km wide Beverlysundet. Two km to the east lies the two smaller

Castrénøyane Castrénøyane is the name given to two small islands, ''Nordre Castrénøya'' and ''Søre Castrénøya'' (English: ''Northern'' and ''Southern Castrén Island''), east of Chermsideøya, Svalbard. The islands were named after Matthias Alexander Ca ...

(''Nordre Castenøya'' and ''Søre Castenøya''). ''Nordkapp'' (North Cape) on the northern coast is considered the northernmost tip of Svalbard proper, although both

Sjuøyane Sjuøyane (English: ''Seven Islands'') is the northernmost part of the Svalbard archipelago north of mainland Norway, and some 20 km north of the eastern major island Nordaustlandet. The islands are the northernmost landmass reachable by normal ...

and Karl XII-øya are situated further to the north.

Parryøya Parryøya () is southernmost of the three larger islands in Sjuøyane, situated 15 km northeast of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. Parryøya is separated from Phippsøya to the north by the 1.3 km wide Straumporten sound and from Chermsideø ...

in Sjuøyane lies some 15 km to the northeast, separated by

Nordkappsundet Nordkappsundet (English: ''North Cape Sound'' or ''Strait'') is a 10-15 km wide strait between Chermsideøya off the north of Nordaustlandet in the south and Sjuøyane in the north, Svalbard in Arctic Norway. Named after Nordkapp North Cape, Nort ...

strait A strait is a water body connecting two seas or water basins. The surface water is, for the most part, at the same elevation on both sides and flows through the strait in both directions, even though the topography generally constricts the ...

. The island's two highest peaks are ''Knoll'' (280 m) on the southwestern half and ''Tott'' (230 m) on the northeastern half, named after the

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characters

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Sir Herbert Chermside Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Charles Chermside, (31 July 1850 – 24 September 1929) was a British Army officer who served as Governor of Queensland from 1902 to 1904. Early life and education Chermside was born in the town of Wilton in Wilt ...

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(1901–07). As lieutenant Chermside, R. E., he accompanied Mr. Leigh Smith on his voyage to

Spitsbergen Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian language, Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipel ...

in 1873.

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Islands of Svalbard Uninhabited islands of Norway {{svalbard-geo-stub