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Storfjorden (
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: ''Great Fjord'') is the body of water separating
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 ...
in the west from
Barentsøya
Barentsøya, sometimes anglicized as Barents Island, is an island in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway, lying between Edgeøya and Spitsbergen. Barents Island has no permanent human inhabitants. Named for the Dutch explorer Willem Barents (who ...
and
Edgeøya
Edgeøya (), occasionally anglicised as Edge Island, is a Norwegian island located in southeast of the Svalbard archipelago; with an area of , it is the third-largest island in this archipelago. An Arctic island, it forms part of the Søraust-S ...
to the east. Its southern limits are
Kikutodden in
Sørkapp Land
Sørkapp Land is the land area south of Hornsund, at the southern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Two glaciers, Hornbreen and Hambergbreen, divide Sørkapp Land from Torell Land.
Sørkapp Land is included in the Sør-Spitsbergen National Par ...
east to
Håøya,
Tiholmane,
Brækmoholmane, and
Menkeøyane
Menkeøyane ( en, Menke Islands) is a small Norwegian island group south of Halvmåneøya, an island off the southeast coast of Edgeøya. The group includes Havella, Alka, Gassen Gassen ( en, The Gander) is the westernmost of the large islets in ...
in
Thousand Islands
The Thousand Islands (french: Mille-Îles) constitute a North American archipelago of 1,864 islands that straddles the Canada–US border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario. They stretch for abo ...
and northeast to
Negerpynten—the southeastern promontory of Edgeøya. Its limits on its eastern side are
Sundneset on the northern side of
Freemansundet south to
Palibinramten on the northwest coast of Edgeøya. The northern part is called
Ginevra Bay, which lies between
Olav V Land
Olav V Land is a peninsula in eastern Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard named after Olav V of Norway. It is covered by the Olav V Icefield, measuring about .''Glacier Atlas of Svalbard and Jan Mayen''. 1993. Oslo: Norsk polarinstitutt, p. 32.
The o ...
and Barentsøya. It ends at
Heleysundet
Heleysundet ( en, Heley Sound) is a narrow sound between Kükenthaløya and Spitsbergen. It is known for its violent tidal races.
Heleysundet was discovered (and named) by the 60-ton ship ''John Ellis'' in 1617, which had been sent out by the Mu ...
.
Storfjorden was historically known as ''Wybe Jans Water'', named after the Frisian whaler
Wybe Jansz van Stavoren. The fjord was first labelled as such in 1620.
References
*Conway, W. M. 1906. No Man's Land: A History of Spitsbergen from Its Discovery in 1596 to the Beginning of the Scientific Exploration of the Country. Cambridge: At the University Press.
*Norwegian Polar Institut
Place Names of Svalbard Database*Watermass transformations in Storfjorden (R. Skogsetha, P.M. Haugan and M. Jakobsson. Elsevier Ltd. 200
Fjords of Svalbard
Landforms of Spitsbergen
Barentsøya
Edgeøya
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