Hotellneset
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Hotellneset ("Hotel Point") is a peninsula north-west of Longyearbyen in Svalbard,
Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
, sticking out into Adventfjorden. It is the location of
Svalbard Airport, Longyear Svalbard Airport ( no, Svalbard lufthavn; ) is the main airport serving Svalbard in Norway. It is northwest of Longyearbyen on the west coast, and is the northernmost airport in the world with scheduled public flights. The first airport near Lo ...
and the port for shipping of coal from Longyearbyen. Above Hotellneset is Platåberget, which is the location for
Svalbard Satellite Station Svalbard Satellite Station ( no, Svalbard satellittstasjon) or SvalSat is a satellite ground station located on Platåberget near Longyearbyen in Svalbard, Norway. Opened in 1997, it is operated by Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT), a joint ...
.


References

Longyearbyen Peninsulas of Spitsbergen {{Spitsbergen-geo-stub