Sabine-Land

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Sabine country is an area on the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard.

Geography

Sabine country connects the central part of Spitsbergen, Nordenskiöld Land, in which the large settlements of Barentsburg and Longyearbyen are, with the far north. Nordenskiöld Land is located in the southwest of Sabine country, north of which is separated by the inner arms of Isfjorden, the peninsula Bünsow country and the largely glaciated Olav V Land. To the west lies the Wichebukta the innermost part of the Storfjorden and in the far south you will reach army land.

Tourism

The western part of the Sabine country is 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 north of the fjord. In the Adolfbukta, on the road to Pyramids, recently a new hut was built as a starting point for tourist expeditions.

Etymology

Sabine country is named after Sir Edward Sabine, an Irish physicist and general of artillery. In 1823 he led in Spitsbergen investigations with the seconds pendulum by.

Swell

• Article Sabine country in The Place Names of Svalbard; Norsk Polarinstitutt; Oslo 1942-2010; ISBN 82-90307-82-9 ( 2001 edition ) (English / Norwegian)
• Rolf Strange; Spitsbergen - Svalbard; Second Edition, November 2008; ISBN 978-3-937903-08-8; Weblink

• Spitsbergen
• Geography ( Svalbard )