Nordenskiöld Bay () is a bay on the northern coast of

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 ...

. The bay is named after Arctic explorer

Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (; 18 November 183212 August 1901) was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the noble Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a friherre (ba ...

Geography

Located between

Laponiahalvøya Laponiahalvøya is a peninsula at Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, east of Brennevinsfjorden and west of Nordenskiöldbukta. The peninsula has a length of about 18 nautical miles. The landscape consists of mountains between 300 and 600 meters; the high ...

and Prins Oscars Land, the bay is facing north and has a width of about 25 nautical miles. It contains several fjords and smaller bays, including Ekstremfjorden, Sabinebukta, Carolusbukta and

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 ...

References

Bays of Svalbard Nordaustlandet {{Nordaustlandet-geo-stub