Store Brækmoholmen
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Store Brækmoholmen is the largest island in Brækmoholmane
, part of Tusenøyane
, an island group south of Edgeøya
. The island is named after Sivert Brækmo (1853-1930), a Norwegian
sailor and fishermen who regularly visited Svalbard
between 1876 and 1895.
Brækmoholmane
Brækmoholmane is an island group composed of three islands, Store Brækmoholmen, Trønderen and Alkekongen. They form part of Tusenøyane, an archipelago south of Edgeøya. The islands are named after the Norwegian sailor and fisherman Sivert Brækmo , who visited Svalbard regularly between 1876 and...
, part of Tusenøyane
Tusenøyane
Tusenøyane is a group of small islands south of Edgeøya. They form part of the Svalbard archipelago. The group consists of over forty islands and islets, including Brotskjer, Kulstadholmane, Utsira, Tufsen, Kong Ludvigøyane, Bölscheøya, Hornøya, Tiholmane, Meinickeøyane, Sletteøya, Schareholmane,...
, an island group south of Edgeøya
Edgeøya
Edgeøya, occasionally anglicised as Edge Island, is an uninhabited Norwegian island in southeast of the Svalbard archipelago; it is the third largest island in this archipelago. An Arctic island, it forms part of the South East Svalbard Nature Reserve, home to polar bears and reindeer. Its eastern...
. The island is named after Sivert Brækmo (1853-1930), a Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
sailor and fishermen who regularly visited Svalbard
Svalbard
Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic, constituting the northernmost part of Norway. It is located north of mainland Europe, midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The group of islands range from 74° to 81° north latitude , and from 10° to 35° east longitude. Spitsbergen is the...
between 1876 and 1895.