Ny-Friesland

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Ny- Friesland is a region of north- east of Spitsbergen, Svalbard.

Geography

The spit of land extends to about the 80th degree of longitude. Verlegenhuken at the north end of Ny- Friesland is the same time the most northerly point on the island - but not from Svalbard. In the East Ny- Friesland is bordered by the Hinlopen Strait, on the opposite side of the island is Nordaustland. In the south of Ny- Friesland is bounded by a line from Vaigattbogen ( bay Hinlopen Strait ) on Oslobreen Kvitbreen and then south to Keplerbreen and Lomonosovfonna and finally from noon - Lefflerbreen. The western border is the Wijdefjorden.

To the southeast lies Olav V Land, in the south Bünsow - country, and in the southwest, beyond the Straits over the lunch Lefflerbreen, Dickson Land.

In the south of Ny- Friesland the two highest mountains of Svalbard, the Newtontoppen (1713 m) and the Perriertoppen lie (1712 m). There, the terrain is very rugged and steep cliffs make the ice desert difficult traversable. In the north are the Åsgardfonna and the Valhallfonna two large glaciers.

There are no settlements in Ny- Friesland, expeditions here must be reported to the Sysselmann (Governor ). The eastern coastal belt against the Hinlopen Strait is part of the Northeast Svalbard Nature Reserve. The coastal area on both sides of the innermost bay of the Wijdefjorden form the Indre Wijdefjorden National Park.

Arve Staxrud (1881-1933) was the first to Ny- Friesland crossed as he gave the survivors of the German Arctic expedition came in 1913 under the direction of Herbert Schröder- Stranzberg in Sorgfjorden to help.

Etymology

Ny- Friesland got its name from Friesland in the Netherlands.