Blomstrandhalvøya
Sign in to savethumb|right|View of Kongsfjorden from Blomstrandøya. Blomstrandøya (), also known as Blomstrandhalvøya, is an island at the western side of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is located in Kongsfjorden, near the northern side of the fjord, and has a roughly circular shape with a cross section of about 5 km. The island was originally believed to be a peninsula, when the glacier Blomstrandbreen extended onto the island. The highest mountain is Irgensfjellet 385 m.a.s.l. The former peninsula has an area of 16,4 km2.
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Vinony's link graph records 11 inbound references to Blomstrandhalvøya, and connects out to geographic coordinate system, Svalbard and Spitsbergen.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Islands of Svalbard.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Svalbard
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Svalbard
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 16
- Elevation
- 240
- Body of water
- Kongsfjorden
- Image
- Blomstrandhalvoya.JPG
- Width
- 4
- Length
- 5
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thumb|right|View of Kongsfjorden from Blomstrandøya. Blomstrandøya (), also known as Blomstrandhalvøya, is an island at the western side of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is located in Kongsfjorden, near the northern side of the fjord, and has a roughly circular shape with a cross section of about 5 km. The island was originally believed to be a peninsula, when the glacier Blomstrandbreen extended onto the island. The highest mountain is Irgensfjellet 385 m.a.s.l. The former peninsula has an area of 16,4 km2.
In 1911, the English prospector Ernest Mansfield founded Ny-London, a now derelict marble mining settlement which lies on the southwestern part of the island.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blomstrandhalvøya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations