Hornsund

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Hornsund
The Hornsund with a view to the east

The Hornsund with a view to the east

Waters Arctic Ocean
Land mass Spitsbergen
Geographical location 76 ° 58 '  N , 15 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 76 ° 58 '  N , 15 ° 43'  E
Hornsund (Svalbard and Jan Mayen)
Hornsund
width approx. 11 km
depth approx. 25 km

The Hornsund is a fjord on the west side of the southern tip of Spitsbergen , which extends about 25 km inland. Since 1957 there has been a Polish research station on the north side of Isbjørnhamna Bay at the foot of the 569  m high Fugleberget .

The entrance to the fjord is about 45 km north of Sørkapp , the southern tip of Spitsbergen. The fjord separates the Sørkapp-Land in the south from the Wedel-Jarlsberg-Land in the north. It is between 2.3 and 11 km wide. The highest mountain on the Hornsund is the Hornsundtind on the south coast of the fjord with a height of 1429 meters.

The Hornsund was named by Jonas Poole in 1610 after his people found a piece of reindeer horn there . Although "Sund" actually refers to a continuous waterway, the name has been preserved to this day. In 1872 an Austrian expedition financed by Johann Nepomuk Wilczek explored the Hordsund with the sailing yacht Isbjörn and left behind a number of geographical names that are still valid today.

climate

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Hornsund
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Temperature ( ° C ) −12.5 −12.7 −12.7 −10.1 −3.7 1.4 4.0 3.7 0.7 −3.7 −8.3 −11.2 O −5.4
Precipitation ( mm ) 28 30th 32 20th 18th 36 40 46 48 45 32 30th Σ 405
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Source: Norwegian Meteorological Institute eKlima , interpolated values

Web links

Commons : Hornsund  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hornsund . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
  2. ↑ Fugleberget . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
  3. ↑ Hornsundtind . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
  4. ↑ a b Wolfgang Pillewizer : Glacier land in the Arctic. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1967, p. 145.
  5. ^ Rolf Stange: Hornsund. In: Spitzbergen.de. September 30, 2010, accessed September 29, 2014 .