Isfjord
| Isfjord | ||
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 View of the Isfjord |
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| Waters | Arctic Ocean | |
| Land mass | Spitzbergen (island) | |
| Geographical location | 78 ° 10 ′ N , 14 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| length | 107 km | |
The Isfjord ( Norwegian Isfjorden ), which literally means ice fjord , is a fjord on the west side of the island of Svalbard . With a length of 107 km, it is the second longest fjord in Svalbard (after the Wijdefjord ). On its south side are the two largest towns in the archipelago, Barentsburg and Longyearbyen . At its mouth there is Isfjord Radio , a beacon and a marine radio station.
Surrounding land
The fjord is surrounded by the following land masses (mainly peninsulas):
Side arms
The fjord has several branches. Clockwise:
- Trygghamna
- Ymerbukta
- Borebukta
- Øienbukta
- Nordfjord
- Yoldiabukta
- Ekmanfjord
- Brevika
- Mudderbukta
- Dicksonfjord
- Billefjord, with the village of Pyramiden
- Skansbukta
- Petuniabukta
- Adolfbukta
- Sassenfjord
- Tempelfjord
- Adventfjord , with the village of Longyearbyen
- Colesbukta
- Grønfjord (also called Green Harbor ), with the village of Barentsburg
glacier
Some glaciers flow into the bays of the fjord . The Borea Glacier, which is 22 kilometers long and 4 kilometers wide and lies on the western side of the Helsingland ridge, flows into Borea Bay, which is located in the western part of the fjord. The 14 kilometer long Nansen Glacier, which was named after the Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen , also flows into the Borea Bay. The 15 kilometer long Esmarkbreen flows into Ymer Bay .
Surname
The name means "ice fjord" because it was frozen over when Jonas Poole gave it its name. This still happens today, but not every year. The English whalers called the entire fjord Green Harbor in the 17th century, according to an agreement between English and Danish captains from 1614.
swell
- map
- Isfjord . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
