Kongsfjorden (Kongs Fjord or Kings Bay) is an inlet on the west coast of Spitsbergen, an island which is part of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. The inlet is 26 km (16 mi) long and ranges in width from 6 to 14 km (4 to 9 miles). Two glaciers, Kronebreen and Kongsvegen, head the fjord.
The coal-mining town of Ny-Ålesund is located on its southern shore and is one of the few permanent settlements on Spitsbergen. It is also a popular shore break for cruise ships, although local scientists who monitor CO2 levels as part of their climate change research have voiced concerns that the excessive pollution generated by cruise ships is interfering with their measurements.
Kongsfjorden was originally named Deer Sound by Jonas Poole (1610), and was known as such by the English whalers until at least 1658. Giles and Rep (c. 1710) were the first to name it Koninks Bay. William Scoresby (1820) repeats this error by naming it Kings Bay, while he moves Deer Sound to a bay in the northeast of the fjord. Modern cartographers have simply repeated this error.
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Kongsfjorden (Kongs Fjord or Kings Bay) is an inlet on the west coast of Spitsbergen, an island which is part of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic...
moored observatory in the Arctic region. It was deployed in 2014 at Kongsfjorden fjord, Svalbard, Norway which is midway between Norway and North Pole...
Kongsfjorden Bird Sanctuary (Norwegian: Kongsfjorden fuglereservat) is a 140 ha bird reserve at Svalbard, Norway, established in 1973. It includes islands...
Won-Cheol (2003). "Monitoring on the Marine Environment and Phytoplankton of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, Arctic". Ocean and Polar Research. 25 (2): 213–226. doi:10...
of Oceanisphaera which has been isolated from marine sediments from Kongsfjorden. "Oceanisphaera". LPSN. "Oceanisphaera arctica". www.uniprot.org. Parker...
genus of Subsaxibacter which has been isolated from intertidal sand from Kongsfjorden in Svalbard. "Species: Subsaxibacter arcticus". LPSN.DSMZ.de. Xu, Fei;...
"A review of Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) studies in the Kongsfjorden area, Svalbard Norway". Polar Biology. 39 (11): 2169–2178. Bibcode:2016PoBio...
seepage along the continental margin off Svalbard - from Bjørnøya to Kongsfjorden". Scientific Reports. 7: 42997. Bibcode:2017NatSR...742997M. doi:10.1038/srep42997...
what Hudson later in the voyage named "Whales Bay" (Krossfjorden and Kongsfjorden), naming its northwestern point "Collins Cape" (Kapp Mitra) after his...
the genus Winogradskyella which has been isolated from sediments from Kongsfjorden. "Species: Winogradskyella psychrotolerans". LPSN.DSMZ.de. Begum, Z.;...
seepage along the continental margin off Svalbard - from Bjørnøya to Kongsfjorden". Scientific Reports. 7: 42997. Bibcode:2017NatSR...742997M. doi:10.1038/srep42997...
Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is located at the inner part and northern side of Kongsfjorden, and extends from the eastern side of Blomstrandhalvøya to Gerdøya and...
Dutch (1613–24), they, for the most part, only claimed the bays south of Kongsfjorden. From 1617 onwards, a Danish-chartered company began sending whaling...
corner of Brøggerhalvøya, located at the southwestern side of outlet of Kongsfjorden, in Oscar II Land on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The name is a Norwegian spelling...
seepage along the continental margin off Svalbard - from Bjørnøya to Kongsfjorden". Scientific Reports. 7: 42997. Bibcode:2017NatSR...742997M. doi:10.1038/srep42997...
Svalbard. It is located south of Ny-Ålesund at the southwestern side of Kongsfjorden, and marks the southern extension of the bay Zeppelinhamna. "Gluudneset...
metabolism and biogeochemical role of zooplankton in a high Arctic fjord (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard)". Limnology and Oceanography. 62 (4): 1586–1605. Bibcode:2017LimOc...
Möllerfjorden and Kollerfjorden. To the south it is separated from Kongsfjorden by a line from Collinsodden on Mitrahalvøya east to Kapp Guissez. The...
(Norwegian: Ossian Sars naturreservat) is located at the inner-most part of Kongsfjorden on Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway. It was created on 26 September 2003...
Kings Bay may refer to: Svalbard, Norway Kongsfjorden, a fjord previously known as Kings Bay Ny-Ålesund, a town known as Kings Bay until 1925 Kings Bay...
Oscar II Land is the land area between Isfjorden and Kongsfjorden on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The 30 km (19 mi) long glacier Sveabreen divides Oscar II Land...
of Cyclobacterium which has been isolated from marine sediments from Kongsfjorden in Svalbard. Parte, A.C. "Cyclobacterium". LPSN. "Cyclobacterium qasimii"...
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