Hornsund is a fjord on the western side of the southernmost tip of northern Norway's Spitsbergen island.
The fjord's mouth faces west to the Greenland Sea, and is 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) wide. The length is 30 kilometres (19 mi), the mean depth is 90 metres (300 ft), and the maximal depth is 260 metres (850 ft). Hornsund cuts different geological formations, from the Precambrian to the west to the upper Mesozoic to the east, and it is perpendicular to the main regional fractures of Spitsbergen.
a Russian vessel at Hornsund
The coastline of Hornsund is diversified, with a number of bays at the mouths of mountainous glacial valleys. Some of these bays have appeared as late as the beginning of the last century due to recession of glaciers.
A Polish research station has been operating there since 1957.
^Unofficial measurement by Statens kartverk Norgeskart.no.
Hornsund is a fjord on the western side of the southernmost tip of northern Norway's Spitsbergen island. The fjord's mouth faces west to the Greenland...
temporary research staff. Poland operates the Polish Polar Station at Hornsund, with ten permanent residents. The Soviet mining settlement of Pyramiden...
Hornsundtind is a mountain south of the fjord Hornsund at the southern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Its height is 1,431 metres. Henriksen, Petter (ed...
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to the Induan stage (early Early Triassic). Outcrops are known from the Hornsund area but also from Bellsund and Isfjorden areas. The Vardebukta Formation...
Observatory, Alert, Nunavut, Canada View of the Polish Polar Station, Hornsund. View of the Arctic research station on Wiese Island. View of the Igloolik...
(abandoned in 1961 and 1998, respectively), a Polish research station at Hornsund, and the remote northern settlement of Ny-Ålesund. Allied soldiers were...
the genus of Desulfofaba which has been isolated from marine mud from Hornsund in Norway. Parte, A.C. "Desulfofaba". LPSN. "Desulfofaba gelida Taxon Passport...
1990s, the research continued in the area of the Polish Polar Station Hornsund. In 2000, a new cycle of research was launched in the Gulf of Petunia.Until...
Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a height of 937 m.a.s.l., and is located north of Hornsund, near the coastal plain of Elveflya. The mountain is named after Tone Johanne...
Willis) with a crossing time of 7 days and 7 hours, from Tromsø, Norway to Hornsund and next to Longyearbyen (additional 36h), Svalbard, with an average speed...
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Wedel Jarlsberg Land is the land area between Van Keulenfjorden and Hornsund on the southwestern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The area is largely covered...
height of 1,016 m.a.s.l., and is the largest mountain between Bellsund and Hornsund. The glacier Torellbreen forms an about twenty kilometer long front below...
kilometers, and debouches towards the bay of Brepollen, the inner part of Hornsund. "Storbreen (Svalbard)". Norwegian Polar Institute. Retrieved 11 September...
Svanhildpasset to Hornbreen, towards the bay of Brepollen, the inner part of Hornsund. "Svalisbreen (Svalbard)". Norwegian Polar Institute. Retrieved 11 September...
polar bear that December. She returned to the islands, specifically to Hornsund, in 1933 and 1934, bringing along her sons, who became trappers themselves...
by English whalemen and explorers—for example, Isfjorden, Bellsund, and Hornsund, to name a few. Hostilities continued after 1619. In 1626 nine ships from...
The Treskelodden Beds is a geologic formation exposed near Hornsund on the island of Spitsbergen, Svalbard in Norway. It preserves fossils dating back...
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