Bünsow Land

78.53611111111116.998611111111Koordinaten: 78 ° 32 '10 " N, 16 ° 59' 55" E

Bünsow country is a peninsula on the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard.

Geography

Bünsow country is north of Nordenskiöld Land and west of the Sabine country. In the north and east it borders on Olav V Land. The Grenzgletscher are the Nordenskiöldbreen, Lomonosovfonna and Tunabreen. On these performs the usual route to the north, such as for excursions to pyramids or Newtontoppen. In the south and west, the peninsula is delimited by the three arms of the innermost Isfjorden: Tempelfjorden, Sass fjords and Billefjorden.

Tourism

Bünsow - Land is located in the Management Area 10, may therefore be freely entered by tourists without a permit. Also popular are trips by motor or dogsled from Longyearbyen to the Temple Fjord, where in the spring usually the Noorderlicht is frozen in ice and serves as a temporary hotel, or after the abandoned mining settlement pyramids northwest of Bünsow country. In the Adolfbukta in the north of Bünsow country, on the road to Pyramids, recently a new hut was built as a starting point for tourist expeditions.

Etymology

Bünsow country bears his name in honor of Friedrich Christian Ernestus Bünsow, a Swedish businessman who has a major role to Gerard Jacob De Geer Spitsbergen Expedition of 1896.

Swell

  • Article Bünsow country in The Place Names of Svalbard; Norsk Polarinstitutt; Oslo 1942-2010; ISBN 82-90307-82-9 ( 2001 edition ) (English / Norwegian)
  • Rolf Stange: Spitsbergen - Svalbard. Second edition, November 2008. ISBN 978-3-937903-08-8, Weblink
  • Spitsbergen
  • Geography ( Svalbard )
  • Peninsula ( Greenland )
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