Kollerfjorden
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Kollerfjorden is a bay in
Haakon VII Land Haakon VII Land is a land area in the northwestern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard (part of Norway), between Woodfjorden and Kongsfjorden. The area was named (as ) after the then King of Norway, Haakon VII, by Gunnar Isachsen, who mapped the ar ...
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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 ...
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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 in the inner part of
Krossfjorden Krossfjorden (English: Cross Fjord) is a 30 km long fjord on the west coast of Spitsbergen, which is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. To the north, the fjord branches into Lilliehöö ...
, at the eastern side. The bay is named after Norwegian topographer Alfred Koller. At the eastern side of Kollerfjorden is the point of Speidarneset, and to the south the bay ends at Regnardneset. There are anchoring conditions for vessels both at the north side and the south side of the bay.


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Bays of Spitsbergen {{Spitsbergen-geo-stub