
Vesle Meinickeøya
    
    Encyclopedia
    
        Vesle Meinickeøya is the smaller of the two islands that comprise Meinickeøyane
, part of Tusenøyane
, an island group south of Edgeøya
.
Meinickeøyane
Meinickeøyane  is an island group composed of two islets, Store Meinickeøya and Vesle Meinickeøya, that form part of Tusenøyane, an island group south of Edgeøya, part of the Svalbard archipelago. They were named after the German geographer Carl Eduard Meinicke .-References:* Norwegian Polar...
, 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...
.


