Sør-Spitsbergen National Park is named after Johan August Ahlstrand, a polar explorer.
As auks breed in the mountain and it is shaped as a horn, the name Alkhornet (the auk horn) is obvious.
Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve – after Salomon August Andrée, 1854-97, a Swedish engineer and Arctic explorer.
Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve – after Karl Andrée, 1808-75, a German geographer.
Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve named after Herbert Chermside, Governor of Queensland (Australia), 1901-07.
Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve – after Lieutenant Francis Crozier, who mapped and named the point.
After the Norwegian sealing schooner “Æolus”.
North-West Spitsbergen National Park – named after the National Day of France.
Fuglehuken is characterized by steep mountains, bird cliffs and rich vegetation.
Gåsbergkilen means the goose rock bay, and is a sensitive but lively place.
Sør-Spitsbergen National Park – Gåshamna is “goose bay” in Norwegian.
Gnålodden is the incessantly humming mountain, inhabited by a shrieking kittiwakes.
Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve – Isflakbukta is Norwegian for “the ice floe bay”.
Originally Lee’s Foreland, this area forms the northwestern part of Edgeøya, south of Freemansundet.
The Norwegians jokingly called the English camp “London”, and this name came into general use.
The northern part of Russøya where a Russian cross and a hut was built by Russian trappers.
A sheltered, natural harbor right on the North-West corner of Spitsbergen.
Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park – named after Signe Amalie Isachsen, wife of the polar explorer, Gunnar Isachsen.
Smeer (Dutch), meaning speck or blubber, accordingly the name means blubber town.
Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve – named after one of the leaders of the Muscovy Company.
Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park. Ytre Norskøya means “outer Norwegian island”.
