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Ekrollhamna is a small bay at
Edgeøya Edgeøya (), occasionally anglicised as Edge Island, is a Norwegian island located in southeast of the Svalbard archipelago; with an area of , it is the third-largest island in this archipelago. An Arctic island, it forms part of the Søraust- ...
, Svalbard. The bay is named after merchant Martin Hoff Ekroll, and is located north of the bay of
Tjuvfjorden Tjuvfjorden ( en, Robber or Thief Fjord) is a 45 km long and up to 30 km wide fjord separating Edgeøya’s two southern promontories, Kvalpynten (Whale Point) and Negerpynten (Negro Point). The fjord was originally named ''Deicrowe's S ...
. An expedition with the ship ''Willem Barents'' stayed in the harbor of Ekrollhamna during the winter of 1894–95.


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Geography of Svalbard Edgeøya {{svalbard-geo-stub