Cape Amsterdam (
Norwegian: Kapp Amsterdam) is a headland in
Nordenskiöld Land
Nordenskiöld Land is the land area between Isfjorden and Van Mijenfjorden on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The area is named after Finnish-Swedish explorer and geologist Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld. The coastal region of Nordenskiöld Land (Nordensk ...
on
Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norw ...
on
Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), also known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it is about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range ...
. Headland marks the northwestern entrance to
Svea Gulf Svea may refer to:
Name
* Svea (name), Swedish female given name meaning "Swede"
* Mother Svea, personification of Sweden
* Svea (singer) (Svea Virginia Kågemark, born 1999), a Swedish singer
Places
* United States
** Svea, Florida, unincorpora ...
that continues north to
Sveagruva.
Cape Amsterdam is 15 km from
Sveagruva and shipping port of the
Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani
Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani (SNSK), or simply Store Norske, is a Norwegian coal mining company based on the Svalbard archipelago. It was formed in 1916, after a Norwegian purchase of the American Arctic Coal Company (ACC).
The company ha ...
. The coal is transported by trucks from there to the quay. In March 2011 there was a coal fire in a pile of around 80,000 tons of coal at Cape Amsterdam.
In September 1946, listed building workers from Sveagruva built a beacon at the entrance to Sveagruva. The ''Lykta'' was operational from 17 September that year.
Cape Amsterdam is named after the Swedish company A / B Svea steamship ''Amsterdam'' that anchored in the area on 11 August 1917.
[Kapp Amsterdam Stadnamn i norske polarområde, Norsk Polar Institute]
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360° view from Cape Amsterdam
Headlands of Spitsbergen
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