Abeløya

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Abeløya is one of the three main islands of belonging to Spitsbergen König Karl country. It is the easternmost island of the archipelago, with an area of 13.2 km ² significantly smaller than the other two main islands, Svenskøya and Kongsøya, and very flat. Kongsøya of it is separated by the Lydiannasundet. The South Cape Island (Cape Schaudinn ) is upstream of the island Berroya.

Abeløya since 1973 is part of the Northeast Svalbard Nature Reserve. Since 1985, travel is prohibited by Abeløya to protect the local polar bear population. The island is also known as a nesting site of the Ivory Gull.

The namesake of the island was the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel.

Enter the first time Abeløya was probably on August 2, 1898 by the participants of the German scientific Helgoland expedition led zoologists Fritz Romans and Fritz Schaudinn.