Daudmannsøyra Important Bird Area
Daudmannsøyra Important Bird Area is a 1000 ha tract of land at Daudmannsøyra, a coastal plain on the western side of Spitsbergen Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian language, Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipel ..., the largest island of Norway’s arctic Svalbard archipelago. It lies in south-western Oscar II Land on the northern side of the entrance to the inlet of Isfjorden (Svalbard), Isfjorden. It is flat with boggy terrain studded with freshwater ponds. Not only that, but it was identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports populations of pink-footed goose, pink-footed and barnacle goose, barnacle geese. References

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Daudmannsodden ("Dead Man's Cape") is a headland in Oscar II Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a length of about three kilometers. Daudmannsodden and Salpynten mark the southern entrance of the strait of Forlandsundet. The coast between Daudmannsodden and Eidembukta is characterized by foul waters, skerries and islets outside small bays. References

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