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Isfjorden

Isfjorden is the second longest fjord in the archipelago of . It lies on the west side of , an island in the Arctic Ocean about midway between and the , and the largest in the archipelago.
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: fjord in Svalbard
  • Also known as: “Baye Glacée”, “Eis Bay”, “Eis Fjord”, “Golfe des Glaces”, “Golfo di Giaccio”, “Green Harbour”, “Grenharbor”, “Groen Haven”, “Groote Haven”, “Grooten Inwyck”, “Ice Fjord”, “Ice Sound”, “Iis Fjord”, “Is Fjord”, “Is Sond”, “Jäävuono”, “la Baie des Glaces”, “Lee Sound”, “Samoilovič”, “Smearingbourg Harbour”, “Tee Sound”, “The Great Indraught”, “Ys Sond”, “Ys Zond Baay”, “Ysse Sound”, and “Zaliv Ljdov”

Isfjorden

Latitude
78.27579° or 78° 16′ 33″ north
Longitude
14.69172° or 14° 41′ 30″ east
Open location code
CFCP7MGR+8M
Open­Street­Map ID
way 654896040
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
2730514
Wiki­data ID
Q1627557
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Satellite Map

Discover Isfjorden from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Swedish—“Isfjorden” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Isfjorden”
  • Azerbaijani: “İsfiord”
  • Basque: “Isfjorden (Svalbard)”
  • Basque: “Isfjorden”
  • Catalan: “Isfjorden”
  • Cebuano: “Isfjorden (fyord)”
  • Cebuano: “Isfjorden”
  • Chinese: “冰峡湾”
  • Danish: “Isfjorden”
  • Dutch: “Isfjord”
  • Dutch: “Isfjorden”
  • Esperanto: “Glacifjordo”
  • French: “Isfjorden”
  • German: “Eisfjord”
  • German: “Isfjord”
  • German: “Isfjorden”
  • Italian: “Isfjorden”
  • Japanese: “イースフィヨルド”
  • Latvian: “Īsfjords”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Isfjorden på Svalbard”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Isfjorden”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nordre Isfjorden”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isfjorden på Svalbard”
  • Norwegian: “Isfjorden”
  • Persian: “ایسفیوردن (سوالبار)”
  • Persian: “ایسفیوردن”
  • Polish: “Isfjorden”
  • Russian: “Ис-фьорд”
  • Russian: “Исфьорд”
  • Spanish: “Isfjorden”
  • Swedish: “Isfjorden, Svalbard”
  • Swedish: “Isfjorden”

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