Gipsdalen is a valley in

Bünsow Land Bünsow Land is a land area at the inner end of Isfjorden at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It forms a peninsula between Billefjorden and Sassenfjorden and Tempelfjorden. Bünsow Land is named after Friedrich Christian Ernestus Bünsow. Bünsow La ...

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 ...

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 ...

. It has a length of about 22 kilometers. The river Gipsdalselva flows through the valley and debouches into

Gipsvika Gipsvika is a bay in Bünsow Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is located at the mouth of Gipsdalen, at the northern side of Sassenfjorden Sassenfjorden is a part of Isfjorden at Spitsbergen, Svalbard, in between Bünsow Land and Nordenskiö ...

Sassenfjorden Sassenfjorden is a part of Isfjorden at Spitsbergen, Svalbard, in between Bünsow Land and Nordenskiöld Land. The inner branch of Sassenfjorden is named Tempelfjorden Tempelfjorden is a fjord branch at the inner end of Sassenfjorden, a ...

. At the western side of the valley are Norströmfjellet, Meakinsfjellet, Grahamkammen,

Usherfjellet Usherfjellet is a mountain in Bünsow Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a height of 683 m.a.s.l. Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean s ...

and Gipshuken.

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