Hoelhalvøya is a peninsula in

Albert I Land Albert I Land is the land area of the northwestern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is bordered by Haakon VII Land to the southeast. To the northeast lies Raudfjorden and its inner branch, Klinckowströmfjorden, to the southeast Krossfjor ...

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 ...

. The peninsula is named after Arctic explorer

Adolf Hoel Adolf Hoel (15 May 1879 – 19 February 1964) was a Norwegian geologist, environmentalist and Polar region researcher. He led several scientific expeditions to Svalbard and Greenland. Hoel has been described as one of the most iconic and influentia ...

. It is located south of

Magdalenefjorden Magdalenefjorden is an 8 km long and up to 5 km wide fjord between Reuschhalvøya and Hoelhalvøya, Albert I Land, on the west coast of Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago. It is large enough to accommodate e ...

. Among the glaciers of the peninsula is

Gullybreen Gullybreen is a glacier in Albert I Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is located in the peninsula Hoelhalvøya, south of Magdalenefjorden. The glacier debouches In hydrology, a debouch (or debouche) is a place where runoff from a small, confined ...

, which debouches into Gullybukta, a southern bay of Magdalenefjoirden. East and south of the peninsula is a glacier system, where Sjettebreen debouches into the sea at the west coast, while Waggonwaybreen debouches into Magdalenefjorden to the north.

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Peninsulas of Spitsbergen {{Spitsbergen-geo-stub