Waldenøya
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Waldenøya (anglicized as Walden Island[1]) is a small, rocky island just north of Nordkapp in Nordaustlandet in the Norwegian territory of Svalbard. It is the westernmost part of Sjuøyane in the Svalbard archipelago.[2]
The island is named after John Walden, who was a midshipman aboard the Hon. Constantine John Phipps' Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". in 1773. Walden, along with two pilots, visited the island on August 5 of the same year during the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole.Template:RTemplate:R
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