Payer Island (Russian: остров Пайера, romanized: ostrov Payera) is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia.

This island was named after Julius Johannes Ludovicus von Payer an Austro-Hungarian arctic explorer and an Arctic landscape artist, one of the leaders of the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition.

The headland at the northern end is Mys Nordik.

[1] The center of the island is covered by an ice dome named Kupol Frolova (Купол Фролова).

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