Olgastrasse

Olgastrasse
	The Olga Strait on a satellite image between Edgeøya and Barentsøya (center) and Svenskøya (top right at the edge of the picture).
Connects waters	Hinlopenstrasse , Erik Eriksenstretet
with water	Barents Sea
Separates land mass	Edgeøya , Barentsøya
of land mass	Svenskøya , King Karl Land
	Data
Geographical location	78 ° 22 ′ N , 24 ° 28 ′ E Coordinates: 78 ° 22 ′ N , 24 ° 28 ′ E
length	100 km
Smallest width	90 km
Greatest depth	approx. 250 m

The Olgastraße ( Norwegian Olgastretet ) is a strait in the Svalbard Archipelago between the islands of Edgeøya and Barentsøya in the west and Svenskøya , the westernmost island of King Karl Lands , in the east. It connects the open Barents Sea with the Erik Eriksenstretet in the northeast and the Hinlopenstrasse in the northwest. It is connected to the Storfjord in the west via Freemansund . The northern boundary of the Olga Strait is defined by a line between Arnesenodden on Svenskøya and Cape Bessels on Barentsøya, the south-western boundary by the imaginary line between Cape Hammerfest on Svenskøya and Cape Melchers on Edgeøya.

The Olgastraße is 90 km wide and up to 100 km long. It reaches its greatest depth at its southeastern exit at around 250 m.

The strait was named in honor of Olga Nikolajewna Romanowa , daughter of the Russian Tsar Nicholas I and Queen of Württemberg . It appears for the first time on August Petermann's map of Ostspitzbergen from 1871, which he drew according to Theodor von Heuglin's information after his trip in 1870.

Individual evidence

↑ Olgastretet . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
^ Zbigniew Perski: Svalbard. Topography and Bathymetry (PDF; 1.17 MB), map in the scale 1: 2,000,000 (English).
↑ August Petermann: Original map of East Spitsbergen to the overview by Th. Heuglin's recordings in 1870 . In: Mittheilungen from Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt about important new researches in the whole field of geography , Volume 17, 1871, Plate 9.
^ Friedrich Wintterlin: Waldburg-Syrgenstein, Karl Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 665 f.

[1] Olgastretet . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).

[2] Zbigniew Perski: Svalbard. Topography and Bathymetry (PDF; 1.17 MB), map in the scale 1: 2,000,000 (English).

[3] August Petermann: Original map of East Spitsbergen to the overview by Th. Heuglin's recordings in 1870 . In: Mittheilungen from Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt about important new researches in the whole field of geography , Volume 17, 1871, Plate 9.

[4] Friedrich Wintterlin: Waldburg-Syrgenstein, Karl Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 665 f.