Sørkapp ("South Cape") is the southernmost point on

Sørkappøya Sørkappøya (English: South Cape Island) is an uninhabited 7 km long island at the southern tip of Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago. Five kilometers north of the island is Sørkapp Sørkapp ("South Cape") is t ...

, south 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 ...

, the largest island in the

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 ...

archipelago,

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 ...

. It was originally named ''Point Lookout'' (1612). The cape itself is long. The point is bordered by the

Greenland Sea The Greenland Sea is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south. The Greenland Sea is often defined as p ...

to the west, the Norwegian Sea to the south and the Barents Sea to the east. The point is within the

Sørkapp Bird Sanctuary Sørkapp Bird Sanctuary ( no, Sørkapp fuglereservat) is a bird reserve at Svalbard, Norway, established in 1973. It includes Sørkappøya and other islands off Sørkapp Land, Spitsbergen. The protected area covers a total area of 3,599ha Referenc ...

. The distance to mainland Norway at Ingøy is about 640 km and to Bear Island about 230 km.

References

Peninsulas of Svalbard Ramsar sites in Norway Sørkappøya {{Svalbard-geo-stub