Woodfjorden is a 65 kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide fiord running in a north-south direction from the north shore of Spitsbergen island. Liefdefjorden is a branch of Woodfjorden and is dominated by spectacular glaciers.
Spitsbergen panorama, Woodfjorden (a view towards east).
The image shows the northernmost part between the glacier Gärmbreen at the left to Bravallafjella mountain ridge (right).
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Spitsbergen panorama, Woodfjorden (a view towards east).
The image shows the stretch between Bravallafjella (left) and Prinsetoppen 738 m (right).
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Woodfjorden, Liefdefjorden
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Woodfjorden
A distant view towards the southern end of the Bockfjorden with Adolfbreen (left) and Friedrichbreen. The mountain between the two glaciers is Smorstappen (1'026 m)
A view towards Evabreen and Paradisbreen in the northwest.
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Spitsbergen panorama, Woodfjorden.
The image shows Korken (741 m) on the northern end of the peninsula, seperating Bockfjorden (left) from Liefdefjorden (right).
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A distant view towards the southern end of Bockfjorden. The main peaks are Trolltindane (958 m), Williamstarnet (1'057 m), Smorstabben (1'016 m) and Krona (1'207 m) with Adolfbreen and Friedrichbreen (from left to right). Bockfjorden is s small fiord on the western side of Woodfjorden, north in Haakon VIl Land. It is named after the German Franz-Karl von Bock, b. 1876, then captain, who with Count Poninski undertook a stereophotogrammetric survey of Woodfjorden in 1907. (source "The Names of Svalbard", Norwegian Polar Institute).
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Spitsbergen panorama, Woodfjorden/Liefdefjorden.
Korken 741 m.
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Spitsbergen panorama, Liefdefjorden.
A view towards Idabreen and Erikbreen.
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Spitsbergen panorama, Liefdefjorden.
Liefdefjorden with Monacobreen, Seligerbreen and Emmabreen (from left to right).
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Liefdefjorden with Monacobreen, Seligerbreen and Emmabreen (from left to right).
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Spitsbergen panorama, Liefdefjorden.
Seligerbreen (Seligerbreen is named after a German topographer, Paul Seliger).
Stortingspresidenten ridge at the left (highest point Hoghotten (1'004 m), Solrova mountain (931 m) in the center and Hesteskoen (1'041 m) at the right.
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Spitsbergen panorama, Liefdefjorden.
The icefront of Monacobreen.
Large glacier debouching into the head of Liefdefjorden. The glacier is named after Prince Albert l of Monaco. Scottish polar explorer Dr. William S. Bruce was a member of the Prince's expedition in 1899 and he probably then saw the glacier, which was mapped by the expeditions in 1906 and 1907 organized by the Prince and led by G. lsachsen. (source "The Names of Svalbard", Norwegian Polar Institute).
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Spitsbergen panorama, Liefdefjorden.
Liefdefjorden with Monacobreen, Seligerbreen, Emmabreen and Idabreen (from left to right).
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Spitsbergen panorama, Liefdefjorden.
Liefdefjorden with Idabreen and Erikbreen (from left to right).
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Spitsbergen panorama, Woodfjorden.
At Mushamna Bay on the eastern side of the northern part of Woodfjorden (=the mouse bay. Norwegian translation of the oldest name, Muys haven, Blaeu 1662). (source "The Names of Svalbard", Norwegian Polar Institute).
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Spitsbergen panorama, Wijdefjorden.
Part of a panoramic distant view from the mouth of Wijdefjorden (south of Moffen island) towards the northern coast of Spitsbergen.
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