Bohemanflya
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Bohemanflya is a peninsula
Peninsula
A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland. In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic and Hungarian, peninsulas are called "half-islands"....

 at the nortwestern side of Isfjorden, at Oscar II Land
Oscar II Land
Oscar II Land is the land area between Isfjorden and Kongsfjorden on Spitsbergen, Svalbard.The area is named after Oscar II of Sweden. Older name variants are Oscar II's Land and Terre Oscar II....

 on Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Constituting the western-most bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland Sea...

, Svalbard
Svalbard
Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic, constituting the northernmost part of Norway. It is located north of mainland Europe, midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The group of islands range from 74° to 81° north latitude , and from 10° to 35° east longitude. Spitsbergen is the...

. It is named after Swedish entomologist Carl Henrik Boheman
Carl Henrik Boheman
Carl Henrik Boheman was a Swedish entomologist.Boheman studied at Lund University and trained as an officer, participating in the invasion of Norway in 1814...

. The peninsula has length of about 14 km (8.7 mi) and a width of 8 km (5 mi), bounded by the bays Yoldiabukta and Borebukta. The Boheman Bird Sanctuary
Boheman Bird Sanctuary
Boheman Bird Sanctuary is a bird reserve at Svalbard, Norway, established in 1973. It includes islands south of the peninsula Bohemanflya in Oscar II Land. The protected area covers a total of 2,076,000 square metres....

 is located south of the peninsula. The southeastern spit on the peninsula is named Bohemanneset
Bohemanneset
Bohemanneset is a cape defined by the sotheastern spit of the peninsula Bohemanflya, located at the nortwestern side of Isfjorden, at Oscar II Land on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is named after Swedish entomologist Carl Henrik Boheman. Bohemanneset has a length of about...

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A claim of the coal
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...

reserves of Bohemanflya was delivered in 1899. The claim covers about 68.4 km² (26.4 sq mi).
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