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    What are the three largest islands in the world named after Norwegians?

    Question #74476. Asked by author. (Jan 12 07 5:44 PM)


    satguru

    		Jan Mayen isn't that big but should qualify.

    Jan 12 07, 7:21 PM
    22crows

    		Jan Mayen is named after a Dutchman: Jan Jacobs May van Schellinkhout.
    Maybe Ellef Ringnes Island, Amund Ringnes Island and Axel Heiberg Island would qualify.

    Jan 12 07, 9:37 PM
    author

    		22crows is absolutely right. And all of the islands are in Canada.

    Jan 12 07, 9:53 PM
    Arpeggionist

    		Really? Dosn't Queen Maud or Roald Amundsen have anything in the area of islands in Antarctica?

    Jan 13 07, 10:49 AM
    Baloo55th

    		Dronning Maud Land is part of the continent, and there's nothing I can see there in the way of islands named after Norwegian. No island named after Amundsen - there's a mount, a glacier, a bay and a sea area. And Queen Maud was not born a Norwegian - she was one of the daughters of Queen Victoria.

    Jan 13 07, 11:22 AM

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