Esmarkbreen (Svalbard)
| Esmarkbreen | ||
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 Esmarkbreen as seen from Ymer Bay |
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| location | Spitsbergen | |
| length | 15 km | |
| Altitude range | 500 moh. - 0 moh. | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 22 ' N , 13 ° 42' E | |
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The Esmarkbreen is a 15-kilometer-long glacier in Oscar II land on Spitzbergen ( Svalbard ). It is named after the Danish geologist Jens Esmark and is part of the Nordre-Isfjorden National Park . The Esmarkbreen calves in Ymer Bay, part of the Isfjord .
The Esmarkbreen has an up to 25 meters high, almost vertical edge in many places, where the blue shimmering ice from inside the glacier can be clearly seen. The glacier is therefore a popular summer destination for tourist boats from Longyearbyen . In August 2012, a tourist was killed by falling chunks of ice after her group came within a few meters of the edge of the break in a rubber dinghy .
Web links
Commons : Esmarkbreen - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Esmarkbreen (Spitzbergen) . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
- ↑ Boat tour to the Esmark Glacier and Barentsburg ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Svalbardvillmarkssenter
- ^ Disaster on Esmarkbreen , Spitzbergen Nachrichten, August 26, 2012
