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.
Key facts
- Body of water.name
- Hornsund
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- DSC03755Hornsund.jpg
- Body of water.caption
- Hornsund west to east
- Body of water.location
- Svalbard, Norway
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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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