Waldenøya

Waldenøya (anglicized as Walden Island[1]) is a small, rocky island just north of Nordkapp in Nordaustlandet in the Norwegian territory of Svalbard.

It is the westernmost part of Sjuøyane in the Svalbard archipelago.

[2] The island is named after John Walden, who was a midshipman aboard the Hon.

Constantine John Phipps' HMS Racehorse in 1773.

Walden, along with two pilots, visited the island on August 5 of the same year during the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole.