Bellsund
| Bellsund | ||
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 Cape Lyell on Bellsund |
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| Waters | Arctic Ocean | |
| Land mass | Spitzbergen (island) | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 40 ′ N , 14 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| width | 11 km | |
The Bellsund is - according to its name - a sound in Spitzbergen on Svalbard . But the name would be more precise as the entrance to a larger fjord system on the west side of the island of Svalbard. The east side flows into the Greenland Sea , the west side is divided into two large fjords, the Van Mijenfjord in the north, which is delimited by the island of Akseløya , and the south, which in turn is divided into two fjords, the larger, eastern Van Keulenfjord and the short Recherchefjord .
In the north of the Bellsund lies the Nordenskiöld-Land peninsula , in the south lies Wedel-Jarlsberg-Land .
The name Bellsund goes back to Jonas Poole and is derived from Klokkefjellet , a bell-shaped mountain at the entrance to Bellsund. Klokke (Norwegian) and Bell (English) both mean bell . A variant of this name has been used on almost all maps since the beginning of the 17th century - corresponding to the early, uncoordinated cartographies in Svalbard (see the main article Spitsbergen ) - in different languages and forms.
Web links
- Bellsund . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).