Gåsøyane are two small islands off

Bünsow Land Bünsow Land is a land area at the inner end of Isfjorden at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It forms a peninsula between Billefjorden and Sassenfjorden and Tempelfjorden Tempelfjorden is a fjord branch at the inner end of Sassenfjorden, a part of ...

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 ...

. They are located at the split of Isfjorden into the two branches

Billefjorden Billefjorden is the central fjord of the three branching from the innermost part of the Isfjord, Svalbard, Isfjorden to the northeast, in Svalbard, Norway. It is 30 km long and 5–8 km wide. Billefjorden lies between Dickson Land to the ...

and

Sassenfjorden Sassenfjorden is a part of Isfjorden at Spitsbergen, Svalbard, in between Bünsow Land and Nordenskiöld Land. The inner branch of Sassenfjorden is named Tempelfjorden Tempelfjorden is a fjord branch at the inner end of Sassenfjorden, a ...

, about two kilometers off the headland of Gåsodden. Gåsøyane were included in the

Gåsøyane Bird Sanctuary Gåsøyane Bird Sanctuary () is a bird reserve at Svalbard, Norway, established in 1973. It includes Gåsøyane in Bünsow Land. The protected area covers a total area of around 2,400,000 square metre The square metre ( international spelling ...

in 1973.

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Islands of Svalbard {{svalbard-geo-stub