Zieglerøya is a remote island off the headland

Andréetangen Andréetangen is a headland at the eastern side of Tjuvfjorden on the southwestern coast of Edgeøya, Svalbard. The headland is named after German geographer Karl Andrée. Off the headland are the two islands Zieglerøya and Delitschøya. André ...

at the eastern side of

Tjuvfjorden Tjuvfjorden () is a 45 km long and up to 30 km wide fjord separating Edgeøya’s two southern promontories, Kvalpynten (Whale Point) and Svarthuken (old name: Negro Point). The fjord was originally named ''Deicrowe's Sound'' by the En ...

, at the southern side 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 ...

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 ...

. Total area of the island is approximately 2,8 km². The island is possibly named after either German Arctic explorer Phil. Alex. Ziegler, or Swiss cartographer Jakob Melchior Ziegler. It is quite low lying, with an elevation of1 metre (3 feet). It is also known as Ziegler Island.

Location

Latitude - 77.3906° or 77° 23' 26" north Longitude - 22.4109° or 22° 24' 39.2" east

History

This island was named after New York businessman William Ziegler, leader of the 1901 Baldwin-Ziegler North Pole Expedition, on ships America, Fridtjof and Belgica, and of the 1903–1905 Ziegler-Fiala Polar Expedition. The Austrian observing site Payer–Weyprecht (81°06′N 56°11′E) was established around the start of the 20th century on this island.

References

Islands of Svalbard {{Svalbard-geo-stub