Kervelbukta is a bay at the eastern side of the glacier

Bråsvellbreen Bråsvellbreen ( en, The Sudden Swell Glacier) is a glacier in Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. The glacier is a 45 kilometre long stream southwards from the ice dome Sørdomen of Austfonna, debouching into the sea on the south coast. In the late 1930s it ...

in Nordaustlandet,

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 naval officer Johan Henrik van Kervel. Bråsvellbreen, with a twenty nautical miles wide glacier front between Kervelbukta and

Vibebukta Vibebukta is a bay at the shore of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. The bay is named after hydrographer Andreas Vibe. It lies between Gustav Adolf Land and the glacier Bråsvellbreen. The twenty nautical miles wide glacier front of Bråsvellbreen, between ...

, exhibited a huge surge in the 1930s.

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