Goësvatnet is an ice-dammed lake in
Sørkapp Land
Sørkapp Land is the land area south of Hornsund, at the southern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Two glaciers, Hornbreen and Hambergbreen, divide Sørkapp Land from Torell Land.
Sørkapp Land is included in the Sør-Spitsbergen National Par ...
at
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 south of the bay of
Gåshamna
Gåshamna is a bay at the southern side of Hornsund, Sørkapp Land, on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The bay has a width of about 2 km, and is included within the Sør-Spitsbergen National Park
Sør-Spitsbergen National Park ( no, Sør-Spitsbergen na ...
in
Hornsund
Hornsund is a fjord on the western side of the southernmost tip of Spitsbergen island.
The fjord's mouth faces west to the Greenland Sea, and is wide. The length is , the mean depth is , and the maximal depth is . Hornsund cuts different geol ...
, at the front of
Goësbreen and near
Brevassfjellet
Brevassfjellet is a mountain in Sørkapp Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a height of 589 m.a.s.l., and is located between Portbreen and Kovalevskajafjellet, south of the ice-dammed lake of Goësvatnet. To the south of the mountain is the ...
. The lake is named after Swedish surgeon and zoologist
Axel Theodor Goës.
References
Lakes of Spitsbergen
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