Simonsen Island
Simonsen Island is one of the Rønnbeck Islands in the Svalbard archipelago. It lies in Hinlopen Strait northeast of Cape Weyprecht on Spitsbergen. The island is a low basalt cliff and its highest point is only above sea level. The closest islands are neighboring Nedrevaag Island about to the southwest and Tobiesen Island about to the northeast. The wildlife consists largely of polar bears.
The island was discovered in 1867 by the Swedish-Norwegian polar explorer Nils Fredrik Rønnbeck. It is named after W. Simonsen, a Norwegian navigator that helped explore the Kara Sea in 1871 on board the Sleipner.
