Nordic countries
Norway
Svalbard

Adventfjorden

Adventfjorden is a 7 km long and 4 km wide bay running south-eastwards from the southern side of Isfjorden, on the west coast of in .
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Photo: R. Henrik Nilsson, CC BY 4.0.
  • Type: Bay
  • Description: bay in Svalbard
  • Also known as: “Advent Bay”, “Adventbai”, “Adventbukten”, “Adventure Bay”, “Adventure Sound”, “Baie de l’Avent”, “Baie de Nicolas Bille”, “Buhta Prihoda”, “Claas Billen Baaij”, “Klaas Bille Baay”, and “Klaasbillen Baai”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Svalbard Airport, Longyear and Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Aerodrome
Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY 3.0.
Svalbard Airport is the main airport serving in Norway. It is 5 km northwest of on the west coast, and is the northernmost airport in the world with scheduled public flights.

Warehouse
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of in the remote Arctic archipelago.

Museum
Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a museum in , the largest town in the archipelago. The museum displays artifacts from the history of Svalbard since its settlement, and exhibits of local plants and animals.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Longyearbyen and Nybyen.

Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, is the largest populated area, and capital of the region of . The settlement is generally regarded as the northernmost town in the world as well as the most easily accessed frontier in the Arctic, and is an ideal base for the greater exploration of and the high Arctic.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small settlement located on the southern outskirts of , on the island of , in the archipelago of . The name is Norwegian and translates as The New Town.

Adventfjorden

Latitude
78.25505° or 78° 15′ 18″ north
Longitude
15.58411° or 15° 35′ 3″ east
Open location code
CFCQ7H4M+2J
Open­Street­Map ID
way 654899384
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
2732181
Wiki­data ID
Q2570135
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Satellite Map

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

From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Adventfjorden” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Adventfjorden”
  • Azerbaijani: “Adventfiord”
  • Basque: “Adventfjorden”
  • Catalan: “Adventfjorden”
  • Cebuano: “Adventfjorden”
  • Dutch: “Adventfjorden”
  • Esperanto: “Adventfjorden”
  • Esperanto: “Adventfjordo”
  • French: “Adventfjorden”
  • French: “Avendtfjorden”
  • Italian: “Adventfjorden”
  • Japanese: “アドベント湾”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Adventfjorden”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Adventfjorden”
  • Norwegian: “Adventfjorden”
  • Russian: “Адвент-фьорд”
  • Russian: “Адвентфьорд”
  • Spanish: “Adventfjorden”
  • Swedish: “Adventfjorden”
  • Venetian: “Adventfjorden”
  • Vietnamese: “Adventfjorden”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Adventpynten and Hotellneset.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Flyplassen and Tender pier.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Adventfjorden”. Photo: R. Henrik Nilsson, CC BY 4.0.