Reuschhalvøya 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 geologist

Hans Henrik Reusch Hans Henrik Reusch (5 September 1852 – 27 October 1922) was a Norwegian geologist, geomorphologist and educator. He served as director of the Geological Survey of Norway. Biography Born in Bergen, he was educated at the University of Leipz ...

. It is located south of Smeerenburgfjorden and Bjørnfjorden, and north 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 ...

. The largest glacier of the peninsula is

Scheibreen Scheibreen is a glacier in Albert I Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is located on Reuschhalvøya, and debouches into Scheibukta, a southern bay of Smeerenburgfjorden. The glacier is named after geologist Per Schei. See also *List of glaciers in ...

, while

Smeerenburgbreen Smeerenburgbreen is a glacier in Albert I Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is located east of Reuschhalvøya. The glacier debouches into Bjørnfjorden, the inner part of Smeerenburgfjorden. Smeerenburg was the name of a Dutch whaling station f ...

is located east of the peninsula.

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Peninsulas of Spitsbergen {{Spitsbergen-geo-stub