Reindalen is a valley in

Nordenskiöld Land Nordenskiöld Land is the land area between Isfjorden and Van Mijenfjorden on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The area is named after Finnish-Swedish explorer and geologist Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld. The coastal region of Nordenskiöld Land (Norde ...

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 has a length of about 38 kilometers. The valley stretches westwards from the mountain pass

Reindalspasset Reindalspasset is a mountain pass in Nordenskiöld Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It separates the 38 kilometer long valley of Reindalen from the 14 kilometer long valley Lundströmdalen. References

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, and debouches into

Van Mijenfjorden Van Mijenfjorden is the third-longest fjord in Norway's Svalbard archipelago. It lies in the southern portion of Spitsbergen island, south of Nordenskiöld Land and north of Nathorst Land. The fjord is long, being separated from Bellsund further ...

, in the bay

Kaldbukta Kaldbukta is a bay in Van Mijenfjorden in Nordenskiöld Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The bay has a width of about 11.5 kilometers. The large valley Reindalen Reindalen is a valley in Nordenskiöld Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a lengt ...

at the northern side of the fjord. The river

Reindalselva Reindalselva is a river in Nordenskiöld Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The river flows through the valley of Reindalen, starting from the mountain pass Reindalspasset, and ending into the bay Kaldbukta in Van Mijenfjorden. It has created one of ...

flows through the valley. Reindalen is the largest ice free valley of Svalbard, and is included in the

Nordenskiöld Land National Park Nordenskiöld Land National Park ( no, Nordenskiöld Land nasjonalpark) was a national park in Spitsbergen island in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. Opened in 2003, the park was disestablished in 2021, and replaced by the significantly larger ...

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