Bohemanneset
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Bohemanneset is a cape defined by the sotheastern spit of the peninsula Bohemanflya
Bohemanflya
Bohemanflya is a peninsula at the nortwestern side of Isfjorden, at Oscar II Land on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is named after Swedish entomologist Carl Henrik Boheman. The peninsula has length of about and a width of , bounded by the bays Yoldiabukta and Borebukta. The Boheman Bird Sanctuary is...

, located 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...

. Bohemanneset has a length of about 2 km (1.2 mi). Older names are Cap Boheman and Cape Boheman.

Polar explorers Hjalmar Johansen
Hjalmar Johansen
Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen was a polar explorer from Norway. He shipped out with Fridtjof Nansen's Fram expedition in 1893–1896, and accompanied Nansen to notch a new Farthest North record near the North Pole on what was then the frozen Arctic Ocean...

 and Theodor Lerner
Theodor Lerner
Theodor Lerner was a German journalist and polar explorer who conducted several expeditions to Svalbard. In 1897 he witnessed the start of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 and took part in the search for Andrée in 1898 during a journey with Friedrich Römer and Fritz Schaudinn...

spent the winter of 1907/1908 in a cabin at Bohemanneset.
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