Cape Amsterdam ( Norwegian: Kapp Amsterdam) is a headland in

Nordenskiöld Land Nordenskiöld Land is the land area between Isfjorden and Van Mijenfjorden on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The area is named after Finnish-Swedish explorer and geologist Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld. The coastal region of Nordenskiöld Land (Norde ...

Spitsbergen Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian language, Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipel ...

Svalbard Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. North of continental Europe, mainland Europe, it lies about midway be ...

. Headland marks the northwestern entrance to Svea Gulf that continues north to

Sveagruva Sveagruva (), or simply Svea, was a mining settlement in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, lying at the head of Van Mijenfjord. When occupied by the workers, it was the third largest settlement in the archipelago (after Longyearbyen and Ba ...

. Cape Amsterdam is 15 km from

and shipping port of the Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani. The coal is transported by trucks from there to the quay. In March 2011 there was a coal fire in a pile of around 80,000 tons of coal at Cape Amsterdam. In September 1946, listed building workers from Sveagruva built a beacon at the entrance to Sveagruva. The ''Lykta'' was operational from 17 September that year. Cape Amsterdam is named after the Swedish company A / B Svea steamship ''Amsterdam'' that anchored in the area on 11 August 1917.Kapp Amsterdam Stadnamn i norske polarområde, Norsk Polar Institute

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360° view from Cape Amsterdam
Headlands of Spitsbergen {{Spitsbergen-geo-stub