Alpini Island

Alpini Island
Native name: <span class="nickname" ">Alpiniøya
Alpini Island
Location in Svalbard
Geography
Coordinates 80°21′01″N 24°45′02″E / 80.35028°N 24.75056°E / 80.35028; 24.75056Coordinates: 80°21′01″N 24°45′02″E / 80.35028°N 24.75056°E / 80.35028; 24.75056
Administration
Norway

Alpini Island[1][2][3] (Norwegian: Alpiniøya)[4] is an island in the Svalbard archipelago, north of Orvin Land in Nordaustlandet. It is located off the headland Bergströmodden, at the mouth of Finn Malmgren Fjord. The island is named after the Italian military corps Alpini, due to a visit to the island in 1928 by an expedition leader and captain of an Alpini regiment, Gennaro Sora.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: Geographical Names.
  2. ↑ Simmons, George. 1965. Target: Arctic: Men in the Skies at the Top of the World. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, p. 175.
  3. ↑ Sandford, Kenneth. S. 1955. The Geology of Isis Point, North-East Land (Spitsbergen). The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 110: 11–18, p. 14.
  4. 1 2 "Alpiniøya (Svalbard)". Norwegian Polar Institute. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
  5. ↑ Arctic Pilot: Sailing directions Svalbard–Jan Mayen 7. Stavanger: The Norwegian Hydrographic Service and The Norwegian Polar Institute. 1988. pp. 332–333. ISBN 82-90653-06-9.


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