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Rijpfjorden
Sign in to savethumb|right|300 px|Rijpfjorden is located at the northern side of Nordaustlandet.
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- fjord
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- Arctic Ocean
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- Jan Rijp
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- Norway
- Located in
- Svalbard
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- Nordaustlandet
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thumb|right|300 px|Rijpfjorden is located at the northern side of Nordaustlandet.
Rijpfjorden is a fjord at the northern side of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. The fjord has a length of about and a width of about . Former names of the fjord include Rypefjorden, Red Currant Bay and Ripsbai. The fjord is named after Dutch explorer Jan Rijp, who never came anywhere near it.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rijpfjorden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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