Tjuvfjorden
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Tjuvfjorden (Template:Langx) is a 45 km long and up to 30 km wide fjord separating Edgeøya’s two southern promontories, Kvalpynten (Whale Point) and Svarthuken (old name: Negro Point).
The fjord was originally named Deicrowe's Sound by the English in 1616 after Benjamin Decrow, who was a leading figure of the Muscovy Company from 1610 onwards. This name appears on the Muscovy Company's map (1625)[1] down to at least William Scoresby’s (1820).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
References and sources
- References
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- Sources
- Norwegian Polar Institute: Place names in Norwegian polar areas
- Purchas, S. 1625. Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and others. Volumes XIII and XIV (Reprint 1906 J. Maclehose and sons).
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