• Kvitøya (English: "White Island") is an island in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, with an area of 682 square kilometres (263 sq mi).
  • Attempting to fly over the North Pole, Andrée and his team were forced to set down among the pack ice farther south, then travel to Kvitøya on foot.
  • Kvitøya has an E-W extension of 44 kilometres and an area of 250 km2. ... Kvitøya was discovered probably already 1707 by the Dutchman Cornelis Giles.
  • Kvitøya (“White Island”) is located in the far north east of the Svalbard archipelago close to the Russian border.
  • Almost entirely covered by an ice cap, Kvitøya is a remote island with a stark, ice-bound landscape in the eastern part of the Svalbard archipelago.
  • They set off on their ill-fate balloon expedition to the North Pole in 1897, then disappeared, a mystery for decades until their remains were found on Kvitøya...
  • Kvitøya is an island in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, with an area of 682 square kilometres.
  • Kvitøya 1707 yılında Hollandalı Cornelis Giles tarafından keşfedildi ve haritalarda "Giles ülkesi" olarak ve onlarca yıldır farklı şekil, boyut ve konumlarda bulundu.
  • Kvitøya island in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean detailed profile, population and facts.