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Dorstbukta is a bay at
Barentsøya Barentsøya, anglicized as Barents Island, is an Arctic island in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway, lying between Edgeøya and Spitsbergen. To the north, in the sound between Barentsøya and Spitsbergen, lies the island of Kükenthaløya. To the ...
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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 ...
. It is located at the northern coast of the island, between Frankenhalvøya and Besselsbreen. The bay is named after Franz Joseph Dorst, member of an Arctic expedition in 1869.


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Bays of Svalbard Barentsøya {{svalbard-geo-stub