Sørkappøya
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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...
, the largest island of the 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...
archipelago. Behind the island is Sørkapp
Sørkapp
Sørkapp is the southernmost point on Sørkappøya, south of Spitsbergen of Svalbard, Norway. The cape itself is long. The point borders to the Greenland Sea to the west, the Norwegian Sea to the south and the Barents Sea to the east. The point is within Sørkapp Bird Sanctuary....
(South Cape), the southern cape of Spitsbergen.