Gipsvika is a bay 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 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 Nordenskiöld Land. The inner branch of Sassenfjorden is named Tempelfjorden Tempelfjorden is a fjord branch at the inner end of Sassenfjorden, a ...

. The bay has a width of about two nautical miles. Gipsvika is included in the Sassen-Bünsow Land National Park. Relics from early mining industry at the site have now been defined as a cultural heritage.

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Bays of Spitsbergen {{Spitsbergen-geo-stub