Kong Karls Land
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Kong Karls Land or King Charles Land is an island group in the Svalbard archipelago, in Arctic Ocean. The island covers an area of 332 km² (128 sq mi) and is made up of the islands of Kongsøya, Svenskøya, Abeløya, Helgolandøya and Tirpitzøya.
The islands, which have the largest concentration of bear in Svalbard, are part of the North East Svalbard Nature Reserve, along with Nordaustlandet and Kvitøya. There is a ban on traffic to the islands, which includes the areas of the sea up to 500 meters away from shore and the airspace up to 500 meters above the area.
Kong Karls Land was discovered by Erik Eriksen in 1853 from a mountain on Edgeøya (Edge Island). Eriksen shored the island as the first on the 27. of July 1859.
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Information about Erik Eriksen in this article is based on "The Discovery of King Karl Land, Spitsbergen, by Adolf Hoel, The Geographical Review Vol. XXV, No. 3, July, 1935, Pp. 476-478, American Geographical Society, Broadway AT 156th Street, New York" and Store norske leksikon, Aschehoug & Gyldendal (Great Norwegian Encyclopedia, last edition)
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