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This is a list of islands of Norway sorted by name. For a list sorted by area, see List of islands of Norway by area. A. Andørja, viewed from Harstad Atløy.
The spread of Norwegian whaling industry to Antarctica in the early 20th century motivated Norway, right after its independence from the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway in 1905, to pursue territorial expansion not only in the Arctic claiming Jan Mayen and Sverdrup Islands, but also in Antarctica. Norway claimed Bouvet Island and looked ...
Rank Island Location Population Area (km²) Highest point Altitude (m) ; 1 Spitsbergen: Svalbard: 2,642 39,044 Newtontoppen: 1,713 2 Nordaustlandet: Svalbard
Svalbard (/ ˈ s v ɑː l b ɑːr (d)/ SVAHL-bar(d), [4] Urban East Norwegian: [ˈsvɑ̂ːɫbɑr]), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean.
Bouvet Island was claimed in 1927 (formally in 1930; in 1935 the island was declared a nature reserve for seals). Peter I Island was claimed in 1929 (formally in 1931). Queen Maud Land (45°E to 20°E) was formally claimed as a Norwegian possession on 14 January 1938. King Harald V became the first reigning monarch to visit Antarctica.
The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of Norway. [note 5] Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency, and not a part of the Kingdom; Norway also claims the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo.
Norway has an elongated shape, one of the longest and most rugged coastlines in the world, and there are a total of 320,249 islands and islets along much-indented coastline, according to Kartverket (the official Norwegian mapping agency). (239,057 islands and 81,192 islets).
Jan Mayen (Urban East Norwegian: [jɑn ˈmɑ̀ɪən]) [1] is a Norwegian volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean with no permanent population. It is 55 km (34 mi) long (southwest-northeast) and 373 km 2 (144 sq mi) in area, partly covered by glaciers (an area of 114.2 km 2 (44.1 sq mi) around the Beerenberg volcano).