Hornsund
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thumb|left|240px|Burgerbukta, a bay in the north of Hornsund Hornsund is a fjord on the western side of the southernmost tip of northern Norway's Spitsbergen island.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in waterbody, across 3 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Fjords of Spitsbergen.
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Key facts
- Body of water.name
- Hornsund
- Body of water.image
- DSC03755Hornsund.jpg
- Body of water.caption
- Hornsund west to east
- Body of water.location
- Svalbard, Norway
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- fjord
- Part of
- Greenland Sea
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Svalbard
- Continent
- Europe
- Image
- Sörkapp Land IMG 3958 hornsund.JPG
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- Commons category
- Hornsund
- vertical depth
- 90
- located in/on physical feature
- Spitsbergen
- different from
- Polish Polar Station, Hornsund
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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thumb|left|240px|Burgerbukta, a bay in the north of Hornsund Hornsund is a fjord on the western side of the southernmost tip of northern Norway's Spitsbergen island.
The fjord's mouth faces west to the Greenland Sea, and is wide. The length is , the mean depth is , and the maximal depth is . Hornsund cuts different geological formations, from the Precambrian to the west to the upper Mesozoic to the east, and it is perpendicular to the main regional fractures of Spitsbergen. thumb|left|240px|a Russian vessel at HornsundThe coastline of Hornsund is diversified, with a number of bays at the mouths of mountainous glacial valleys. Some of these bays have appeared as late as the beginning of the last century due to recession of glaciers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hornsund” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
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