Edgeøya (occasionally anglicised as Edge Island), is an uninhabited island in Svalbard, lying between Spitzbergen and Barentsøya. The island forms part of the South East Svalbard Nature Reserve, home to polar bears and reindeer. It is eastern side covered by an ice field. The island is about 1,900 sq miles or 5,030 sq kilometers. A small island in the Adriatic sea An island is any piece of land smaller than a continent and larger than a rock, that is completely surrounded by water. ... Svalbard, part of the Kingdom of Norway, lies in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe. ... Spitsbergen is the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago, which is situated in the Arctic Ocean and administered by Norway. ... The name Polar Bear is also a tradename for a type of scuba divers warm undersuit to be worn under a drysuit. ... Binomial name Rangifer tarandus The reindeer, known as caribou in North America, is an Arctic-dwelling deer (Rangifer tarandus). ...