Hofmann Island (Остров Гофмана; Ostrov Gofmana) is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russian Arctic.
Hofmann Island is long and its maximum width is . It is located further east from Rainer Island and it has three small islets on its northeastern shores.
Hofmann island is the site of a snow runway.
This island is said to have been named after Freiherr Leopold von Hoffmann, a member of the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Society,Günther Hamann (1975): "Das Zeitalter Kaiser Franz Josefs im Spiegel der Topographie des Franz-Josefs-Landes". Publikationen aus dem Archiv der Universität Graz 4, pp. 139–151, (p. 146, german) though a differing claim attributes the namesake to be Russian geologist Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann.
Northeast of Hofmann Island runs a channel known as Proliv Severo Vostochnyy, beyond which lies Belaya Zemlya.
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