Sørkapp

Sørkapp

Sørkapp

Peninsula in Svalbard, Norway

This article is about the southernmost point of Svalbard. For Sørkapp on Jan Mayen, see Sørkapp (Jan Mayen).

Sørkapp ("South Cape") is the southernmost point on Sørkappøya, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago, Arctic Norway. It was originally named Point Lookout (1612). The cape itself is 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) long.[2] The point is bordered by the Greenland Sea to the west, the Norwegian Sea to the south and the Barents Sea to the east. The point is within the Sørkapp Bird Sanctuary.[3]

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Sørkapp is located on the southern tip of Spitsbergen.

The distance to mainland Norway at Ingøy is about 640 km and to Bear Island about 230 km.

References

  1. [1]
    "Sørkapp". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  2. [2]
    "Sørkapp". Norwegian Polar Institute. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
  3. [3]
    "Verneområdene på Svalbard" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management. Retrieved 24 March 2010.

76°28.9′N 16°33.8′E


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