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Edgeøya

5,073 km² rising to 590 m out of the Barents Sea.

When to go

Edgeøya seen from space, cut out from the sea (Sentinel-2)
N 10 km

Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2017 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.

In numbers

5,073km²

Area

426km

Coastline

measured on a simplified outline

590m

Highest point

0

People

2°C

Warmest sea

August

680km

To the mainland

When to go to Edgeøya

Good all year round.

The sea is warmest in August (2 °C) and coolest in March (-1 °C). The water never reaches 21 °C: bring a wetsuit.

Sea temperature (the water level) Air: night low to afternoon high Wet days

Averages 1991–2020. Sea: NOAA OISST, the water within 35 km of the coast. Air, rain and sun: NASA POWER. Best months weigh warm afternoons (23–30 °C), sea of 24 °C or more and few wet days.

Third-largest island of the Svalbard archipelago

Edgeøya is an island in Norway. It belongs to Svalbard. It covers 5,073 km², with 426 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 590 m. Nobody lives on it. The nearest mainland is 680 km away.

Read more on Wikipedia

Getting there

  • 680 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast

Plan the trip

Ferries, stays and things to do

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On the island

What you find on Edgeøya.

  • 1beaches

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, inside the island's outline. A low number may only mean nobody has mapped it yet.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Edgeøya in our other atlases

Everything Coastya, Peakyas, Lakeyas and Cascadyas know about what lies inside Edgeøya, each with its own numbers.

  • 4beaches and covesCoastya
  • 31mountainsPeakyas

  • Highest point

    169m

    Osten-Sakenfjellet

    according to Peakyas

  • Beach with the warmest sea

    2.3°C

    Habenichtbukta

    sea in the warmest month · according to Coastya

4 beaches

on Coastya, the beach atlas

  1. Iskilencove1.9°C
  2. Walter Thymensbuktacove1.7°C
  3. Habenichtbuktacove2.3°C
  4. Bjørnbuktacove1.7°C

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31 mountains

on Peakyas, the mountain atlas

  1. Osten-Sakenfjellet169m
  2. Kvalpyntfjellet
  3. Müllerberget
  4. Schneiderberget
  5. Svarthukfjellet
  6. Caltexfjellet
  7. Årdalsnuten
  8. Siegelfjellet

23 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗

The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 188 m above the sea. 54 % of it is below 200 m.

  • 29 %0–50 m
  • 25 %50–200 m
  • 45 %200–500 m
  • 1 %500–1,000 m

Share of the island's area in each altitude band, from the Copernicus DEM (30 m, read at 30–240 m on large islands).

Size, for real

Next to islands you may know.

Edgeøya5,073 km²
Crete8,286 km²
Cyprus9,282 km²

100 km

All outlines drawn to the same scale (Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap).

Month by month

The weather on the island.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon high (°C)-7-8-10-7-21332-2-4-6
Night low (°C)-12-12-15-12-50220-4-7-9
Sea (°C)-1-1-1-1-1012200-1
Rain (mm)524654414233455464636161
Wet days141213998101214151415
Sun h/day—1.35.710.410.39.66.34.32.40.7——
Wind (km/h)272725232016151621242727

Averages 1991–2020 for the ~55 km NASA POWER cell over the island; the sea from NOAA OISST.

Recent years

Warmer and cooler years at sea.

Each month's sea temperature compared with its 1991–2020 average, in degrees.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2020−1.0−0.9−0.8−0.8−0.8−0.8−1.7−0.1+0.1−0.6−0.1−0.6
2021−0.3−0.8−0.7−0.7−0.7−0.6+0.4+0.9+0.2−0.4−0.8−1.1
2022−1.0−0.9−0.7−0.7−0.7−0.7+2.0+1.9+1.0+0.8+0.2−0.2
2023−0.3−0.4−0.6−0.7−0.7−0.1+3.0+2.9+2.0+0.1−0.8−0.9
2024−0.9−0.9−0.8−0.7−0.8−0.5+0.9+3.1+1.8+1.2+0.8−0.6
2025−0.9−0.7−0.5−0.6−0.5+0.2+2.2+2.3+1.6+1.9+1.2+0.3

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Photos

Seen by visitors.

Seaice & Edgeøya
Lars H. Smedsrud · CC BY-SA 3.0

Nearby

More islands nearby.

BarentsøyaNorwayNorway1,276 km²405 m87 km awayHopenNorwayNorway45 km²371 m140 km awaySpitsbergenNorwayNorway39,044 km²1,713 m190 km awaySvenskøyaNorwayNorway138 km²280 m150 km awayWilhelmøyaNorwayNorway118 km²558 m162 km awayKong Karls LandNorwayNorway361 km²316 m195 km awayKongsøyaNorwayNorway200 km²320 m196 km awayNordaustlandetNorwayNorway14,467 km²764 m237 km away

About these numbers

Names, area, populationWikidata (Q695120) · CC0
OutlineNatural Earth · public domain
Sea temperatureNOAA OISST v2.1 · 1991–2020
ClimateNASA POWER · 1991–2020
Relief, 3D modelCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Beaches, ports, lighthouses, trails© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
TownsGeoNames · CC BY 4.0
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Beaches, mountains, lakes and waterfallsCoastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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