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Ekrollhamna is a small bay at
Edgeøya Edgeøya (), occasionally anglicised as Edge Island, is a Norwegian island located in southeast of the Svalbard archipelago; with an area of , it is the third-largest island in this archipelago. An Arctic island, it forms part of the Søraust-Sva ...
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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 ...
. The bay is named after merchant Martin Hoff Ekroll, and is located north of the bay of
Tjuvfjorden Tjuvfjorden ( en, Robber or Thief Fjord) is a 45 km long and up to 30 km wide fjord separating Edgeøya’s two southern promontories, Kvalpynten (Whale Point) and Negerpynten (Negro Point). The fjord was originally named ''Deicrowe's So ...
. An expedition with the ship ''Willem Barents'' stayed in the harbor of Ekrollhamna during the winter of 1894–95.


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Geography of Svalbard Edgeøya {{svalbard-geo-stub