{{Short description|Island in Svalbard, Norway}} {{Infobox islands | name = Hermansen Island | native_name = Hermansenøya | native_name_link = | image_name = | image_size = | image_caption = | map = Svalbard | map_caption = | location = | coordinates = {{coord|78.5494|N|12.1962|E|type:isle_region:NO_dim:10000|display=inline,title}} | area_km2 = | country = Norway | population = | population_as_of = }} '''Hermansen Island'''<ref>Gordon, Seton. 1923. ''Hebridean Memories''. Glashow: Neil Wilson Publishing.</ref><ref>Gugnacka-Fiedor, Wanda & Bożena Noryśkiewicz. 1982. The Vegetation of Kaffiøyra, Oscar II Land, NW Spitsbergen. ''Acta Universitatis Nicolai Copernici, Geografia'' 16(51): 203–238, p. 228.</ref><ref>Adamska, Edyte, Natalia Glazik, & Wanda Gugnacka-Fiedor. 1999. Elements of the Lichen Flora of Kaffiøyra (Oscar II Land, NW Spitsbergen) Collected during the Third Toruń Polar Expedition. ''Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica'' 44(1): 151–166, p. 151.</ref> ({{langx|no|Hermansenøya}}) is an island in Oscar II Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a length of about three kilometers, and is located in Forlandsundet at the mouth of St. Jonsfjorden. The island is named after Norwegian naval officer Andreas Encke Hermansen.<ref name=npolar>{{cite web |url=http://placenames.npolar.no/stadnamn/Hermansenøya |title=Hermansenøya (Svalbard) |publisher=Norwegian Polar Institute |accessdate=29 September 2013}}</ref><ref name=arcticpilot>{{cite book |title=Arctic Pilot: Sailing directions Svalbard–Jan Mayen |year=1988 | volume =7 |publisher=The Norwegian Hydrographic Service and The Norwegian Polar Institute |location=Stavanger |language= |isbn=82-90653-06-9 |pages=243, 250 }}</ref> The island was protected as a bird reserve in 1973.
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