Prins Oscars Land is a land area constituting mainly Platenhalvøya, a peninsula between

Rijpfjorden Rijpfjorden is a fjord at the northern side of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. The fjord has a length of about and a width of about . Former names of the fjord include ''Rypefjorden'', ''Red Currant Bay'' and ''Ripsbai''. The fjord is named after Dutch ...

in the west and

Duvefjorden Duvefjorden is a fjord at the northern side of Nordaustlandet Nordaustlandet (sometimes translated as North East Land) is the second-largest island in the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, with an area of . It lies north east of Spitsbergen, s ...

with Fortherbyfjorden and Innvika on 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 ...

Arctic Norway Arctic Norway ( no, Det arktiske Norge) comprises the northernmost parts of Norway that lie above the Arctic circle. Norway reaches from approximately 58°N to 81°N, so large parts lie north of the Arctic circle at 66°33′. In Norway, the name ...

. Bordering Gustav V Land to the west, Gustav Adolf Land to the south,

Orvin Land Orvin Land is the land area of the northeastern part of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, east of Duvefjorden, including the lower part of Austfonna. The area is named after geologist Anders Kristian Orvin Anders Kristian Orvin (24 October 1889 – 2 ...

and

Austfonna Austfonna is an ice cap located on Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Covering an area of 7,800 km2, it is Europe's third-largest glacier by area and volume, after the Severny Island ice cap of Novaya Zemlya, Russia, and Va ...

to the east. Limit over land through

Rijpdalen Rijpdalen is a valley in the central part of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, separating Gustav V Land from Prins Oscars Land. The valley extends between the head of Wahlenbergfjorden and the head of Rijpfjorden. The valley is named after Dutch explorer ...

and Flaumdalen in the west, to

Winsnesbreen Winsnesbreen is a glacier on Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, situated between Etonbreen and Helvetesflya. It is named after the geologist Thore Schanke Winsnes. The lake of Brånevatnet is located between Winsnesbreen and Oxfordhalvøya at the head of ...

in the south, the lower part of Austfonna, through Fonndalen and Innvikdalen to the east. Named after Prince Oscar (1829 – 1907), later

King Oscar II Oscar II (Oscar Fredrik; 21 January 1829 – 8 December 1907) was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death in 1907 and King of Norway from 1872 to 1905. Oscar was the son of King Oscar I and Queen Josephine. He inherited the Swedish and Norweg ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

(1872 - 1905) and

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

(1872 - 1907).

References

Geography of Svalbard Nordaustlandet {{Nordaustlandet-geo-stub