Nordenskiöld Land

Geographical location

Nordenskiöld Land is a peninsula on Spitsbergen. It covers the central part of the island between the Isfjorden and Bellsund / Van Mijenfjorden. Are the largest inhabited places of Spitsbergen, Longyearbyen and Barentsburg namely on the north coast of the peninsula. At its north-eastern Cape Kapp Linné is Longyearbyen radio. The mining settlement Sveagruva located on the southeast coast. The whole, bordering on the Arctic Ocean west coast is occupied by a flat and wide coastal strip called Nordenskiöldkysten ( Nordenskiöld coast). The southern half of the peninsula is occupied by Nordenskiöld Land National Park. In the north-east of the peninsula has still share in the Sassen - Bünsow -Land National Park. South of Van Mijenfjorden the peninsula joins Nathorst country.

The name appears in the maps and publications by Gerard De Geer (1896 and 1900 ) as well as by Gunnar Isachsen (1915 ) and is a tribute to Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.

Literature and sources

• Article Nordenskiöld Land in The Place Names of Svalbard; Norsk Polarinstitutt; Oslo 1942-2010; ISBN 82-90307-82-9 ( 2001 edition ) (English / Norwegian)

• Spitsbergen
• Geography ( Svalbard )
• Peninsula (Norway )
• Peninsula ( Europe)
• Peninsula ( Arctic Ocean)