Sørkapp ("South Cape") is the southernmost point on Sørkappøya, south 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 in the

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 ...

archipelago, Arctic Norway. It was originally named ''Point Lookout'' (1612). The cape itself is long. The point is bordered by the Greenland Sea to the west, the Norwegian Sea to the south and the Barents Sea to the east. The point is within the Sørkapp Bird Sanctuary. The distance to mainland Norway at Ingøy is about 640 km and to Bear Island about 230 km.

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