AECOGuidelinesSite-Specific

Site-Specific

AECO has developed guidelines to safeguard the environment and the cultural remains, yet allowing a great nature experience.

Our Svalbard Site-Specific Guidelines has information and advice on selected sites. AECO’s members and their guests are obliged to follow these guidelines, but we would like to invite all other visitors to do the same.

AECO’s site-specific guidelines is proprietary information and may not be shared, copied, or distributed to third parties.

Non-AECO members are not authorized to use AECO’s guidelines for any official purposes.

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Ahlstrandhalvøya

Sør-Spitsbergen National Park is named after Johan August Ahlstrand, a polar explorer.
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Alkhornet / Trygghamna

As auks breed in the mountain and it is shaped as a horn, the name Alkhornet (the auk horn) is obvious.

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Andréeneset

Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve – after Salomon August Andrée, 1854-97, a Swedish engineer and Arctic explorer.
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Andréetangen

Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve – after Karl Andrée, 1808-75, a German geographer.
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Chermsideøya

Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve named after Herbert Chermside, Governor of Queensland (Australia), 1901-07.
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Crozierpynten

Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve – after Lieutenant Francis Crozier, who mapped and named the point.
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Eolusneset

After the Norwegian sealing schooner “Æolus”.
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Fjortende Julibukta

North-West Spitsbergen National Park – named after the National Day of France.
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Fuglehuken

Fuglehuken is characterized by steep mountains, bird cliffs and rich vegetation.
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Gåsbergkilen

Gåsbergkilen means the goose rock bay, and is a sensitive but lively place.
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Gåshamna

Sør-Spitsbergen National Park – Gåshamna is “goose bay” in Norwegian.

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Gnålodden

Gnålodden is the incessantly humming mountain, inhabited by a shrieking kittiwakes.
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Isflakbukta

Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve – Isflakbukta is Norwegian for “the ice floe bay”.

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Kapp Lee – Dolerittneset

Originally Lee’s Foreland, this area forms the northwestern part of Edgeøya, south of Freemansundet.
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London

The Norwegians jokingly called the English camp “London”, and this name came into general use.
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Nordre Russøya

The northern part of Russøya where a Russian cross and a hut was built by Russian trappers.

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Sallyhamna

A sheltered, natural harbor right on the North-West corner of Spitsbergen.
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Signehamna

Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park – named after Signe Amalie Isachsen, wife of the polar explorer, Gunnar Isachsen.
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Smeerenburg

Smeer (Dutch), meaning speck or blubber, accordingly the name means blubber town.
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Sundneset

Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve – named after one of the leaders of the Muscovy Company.
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Ytre Norskøya

Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park. Ytre Norskøya means “outer Norwegian island”.