Bear Island

Summary

Bear Island is an island^[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of island entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (222 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Bear Island is credited with the discovery of Willem Barents^[3].
• Bear Island is credited with the discovery of Jacob van Heemskerck^[4].
• Bear Island is located in Svalbard^[5].
• Bear Island is in the country of Norway^[6].
• Bear Island is on the body of water Norwegian Sea^[7].
• Bear Island's image is recorded as Bjoern9.jpg^[8].
• Bear Island's instance of is recorded as island^[9].
• Bear Island's owned by is recorded as Bjørnøen^[10].
• Bear Island's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 7735156858586549780005^[11].
• Bear Island's locator map image is recorded as Bjørnøya map-fr.svg^[12].
• Bear Island's location is recorded as Arctic Ocean^[13].
• Bear Island's part of is recorded as Svalbard^[14].
• Bear Island's Commons category is recorded as Bjørnøya^[15].
• Bear Island's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 9382299^[16].
• Bear Island's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+01:00^[17].
• Bear Island's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1596-06-10T00:00:00Z^[18].
• Bear Island's highest point is recorded as Miseryfjellet^[19].
• Bear Island's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 74.44, 'lon': 19.0475}^[20].
• Bear Island's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/018vrc^[21].
• Bear Island's located in/on physical feature is recorded as Barents Sea^[22].
• Bear Island's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bear Island (Norway)^[23].
• Bear Island's Commons gallery is recorded as Bear Island^[24].
• Bear Island's page banner is recorded as Wv Björnöya banner.JPG^[25].
• Bear Island's population is recorded as {'amount': '+9'}^[26].
• Bear Island's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Willem Barents^[3], an explorer^[28], 1550–1597^[29], of Dutch Republic^[30], specialised in exploration^[31] and Jacob van Heemskerck^[4], an explorer^[32], 1567–1607^[33], of Dutch Republic^[34].

Why It Matters

Bear Island ranks in the top 4% of island entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (222 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[35] It is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[36]