Wijdefjord
| Wijdefjord | ||
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| Waters | Arctic Ocean | |
| Land mass | Spitzbergen (island) | |
| Geographical location | 79 ° 38 ′ N , 15 ° 27 ′ E | |
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| length | 108 km | |
The Wijdefjord is the longest fjord of the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean.
The fjord, which cuts into the island of Spitsbergen from north to south, is 108 km long and is bounded by the land masses Andrée-Land , Dickson-Land and Ny-Friesland . By the Gråkammen with Kapp Petermann it is divided in its southern part into the Aust and Vestfjord. At its innermost (southernmost) point is the Indre-Wijdefjorden National Park . Here the Mittag-Lefflerbreen glacier flows into the fjord. The name Wijdefjord ( Dutch for "Wide Fjord") is due to its relatively wide mouth.
source
Wijdefjorden . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
Fiction
The adventure novel Jäger in Nacht und Eis by Wilhelm Dege (Reutlingen 1953) is set on the Wijdefjord .
