List of islands in the Arctic Ocean
Appearance
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These islands of the Arctic Ocean can be classified by the country that controls the territory.
Canada
[edit]- Arctic Archipelago
- Hans Island (shared with Denmark)
- Herschel Island (in the Beaufort Sea, part of the Yukon)
Denmark
[edit]Iceland
[edit]- Iceland (northern coast)
Norway
[edit]- Bear Island
- Jan Mayen
- Svalbard Archipelago:
Russia
[edit]- Dikson Island
- Franz Josef Land
- Great Diomede Island
- New Siberian Islands
- Anzhu Islands
- Belkovsky Island
- Kotelny/Faddeyevsky Island (including the island of 'Bunge Land')
- New Siberia
- Lyakhovsky Islands
- Semyonovsky Island
- Stolbovoy Island
- Anzhu Islands
- Novaya Zemlya
- Severnaya Zemlya
- October Revolution Island
- Bolshevik Island
- Komsomolets Island
- Pioneer Island
- Schmidt Island
- De Long Islands
- Minor Islands in Severnaya Zemlya
- Solovetsky Islands
- Victoria Island (administered as part of Franz Josef Land, but physically separate)
- Ushakov Island (Russian Arctic) halfway between Franz Josef Land and Severnaya Zemlya
- Wrangel Island
Five new islands were discovered by Russia in October 2019.[1]
United States
[edit]See also
[edit]Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Islands of the Arctic Ocean.
- List of islands
- List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean
- List of islands in the Pacific Ocean
- List of islands in the Indian Ocean
- List of islands of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
- Extreme points of the Arctic
References
[edit]- ^ "Melting Glaciers Reveal Five New Islands in the Arctic". The Guardian. Agence France-Presse. October 22, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2019.