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Torell Land is a land area at the southeast part of
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 is named after
Otto Martin Torell
Prof Otto Martin Torell HFRSE (5 June 1828 – 11 September 1900) was a Swedish naturalist and geologist.
Life
He was born in Varberg, Sweden on 5 June 1828 the son of Johan Petter Torell and his wife, Susanna Charlotta Varenius.
He was educa ...
. Two glaciers,
Hornbreen
Hornbreen ("Horn glacier") lies between Torell Land and Sørkapp Land on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The glacier debouches into Hornsund
Hornsund is a fjord on the western side of the southernmost tip of Spitsbergen island.
The fjord's mouth faces ...
and
Hambergbreen
Hambergbreen is a glacier on Spitsbergen, Svalbard, dividing Torell Land and Sørkapp Land, and debouching into the sea at the eastern coast of Spitsbergen. The glacier is named after Swedish geographer and explorer Axel Hamberg
Axel Hamberg (1 ...
, divide Torell Land from
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 ...
.
Torell Land is included in the
Sør-Spitsbergen National Park
Sør-Spitsbergen National Park ( no, Sør-Spitsbergen nasjonalpark, eng, South Spitzbergen National Park) encompasses the southern end of Spitsbergen island in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. The park was opened in 1973 and includes Wedel Jarl ...
.
References
Geography of Svalbard
Spitsbergen
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