| | | | | Area: | Svalbard | | | Position: | 76°58.3'N 15°43.1'E | | | Map sheet: | S100 B12 Torellbreen
S100 C13 Sørkapp
S1000 Svalbard | | | Category: | Fiord | | | References: | Bernt Gundersen 1617 in Ræstad (1912) App. 7, p. 110, Svalbard chart S. 5 (1933) | | | | Definition:
The southernmost and about 25 km long fiord on the western side of Spitsbergen. Limited in the west by a line between Hornsundneset in Sørkapp Land and Worcesterpynten in Wedel Jarlsberg Land | Origin:
"They brought a piece of a Deeres horne aboard, therefore I called this sound Horne Sound" (Poole). A permanently manned Polish research station has been located in Hornsund since 1957 |
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