Kapp Lovén is a headland in
Gustav V Land at
Nordaustlandet
Nordaustlandet (Anglicised as North East Land) is the second-largest island in the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, with an area of . It lies north east of Spitsbergen, separated by Hinlopen Strait. Much of Nordaustlandet lies under large ice ca ...
,
Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. North of continental Europe, mainland Europe, it lies about midway be ...
. It is located at the eastern side of
Planciusbukta and west of
Rijpfjorden
Rijpfjorden is a fjord at the northern side of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic ...
, north of the mountain
Båtkvelvet. The headland is named after Swedish zoologist
Sven Ludvig Lovén
Prof Sven Ludvig Lovén (6 January 1809 – 3 September 1895), was a Swedish marine zoologist and malacologist. The Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences within the University of Gothenburg was named in his honour.
Life
Lovén was born in Stoc ...
.
References
Headlands of Nordaustlandet
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