Eholmen
Encyclopedia
Eholmen is a 1.5km long island in the divide between Bellsund
and Van Keulenfjorden
, on the west coast of Spitsbergen
. It is the southwesternmost point of Nathorst Land
.
Bellsund
Bellsund is a 20 km long sound on the west coast of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard archipelago.-History:Bellsund was first seen by William Barents in 1596. He simply referred to it as Inwyck . In 1610 Jonas Poole explored Bellsund, giving the fjord the name it retains to this day. He named it...
and Van Keulenfjorden
Van Keulenfjorden
Van Keulenfjorden is a 30km long fjord on the west coast of Spitsbergen separting Nathorst Land to the north and Wedel Jarlsberg Land to the south. Van Keulenfjorden is separated from Bellsund by Forsbladodden in the north and Richardodden to the south....
, on the west coast of Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Constituting the western-most bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland Sea...
. It is the southwesternmost point of Nathorst Land
Nathorst Land
Nathorst Land is the land area between Van Keulenfjorden and Van Mijenfjorden on Spitsbergen, Svalbard.The area is named after Alfred Gabriel Nathorst....
.