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Isfjorden    (Approved)
  Area:Svalbard
  Position:78°15.0'N 14°46.8'E
  Map sheet:S100 B9 Isfjorden
S100 C8 Billefjorden
S100 C9 Adventdalen
S1000 Svalbard
  Category:Fiord
  References:Dunér and Nordenskiöld 1865 a, Svalbard chart S. 3 (1932)

Definition:
Svalbard's second longest fiord, 107 km, on the western coast of Spitsbergen with Grønfjorden, Adventfjorden, Sassenfjorden, Tempelfjorden, Billefjorden, Nordfjorden, Dicksonfjorden and Ekmanfjorden, limited in the west by a line between Daudmannsodden in the north and Revleodden in the south

Origin:
I. = the ice fiord

Isfjorden, see red dot

(longitude rounded to nearest degree, latitude to 0.1 degree)

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