Steenstrupdalen is a valley in

Nathorst Land Nathorst Land is the land area between Van Keulenfjorden and Van Mijenfjorden on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The area is named after Alfred Gabriel Nathorst Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (7 November 1850 – 20 January 1921) was a Swedish Arctic exp ...

Spitsbergen Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern N ...

, Svalbard. It is named after Danish geologist

Knud Johannes Vogelius Steenstrup Knud Johannes Vogelius Steenstrup (7 September 1842 – 6 May 1913) was a Danish geologist. He was most noted as an explorer of Greenland. Biography Steenstrup was born at Høstemark Mill in Mou Sogn, Jutland, Denmark. He was the son of Jo ...

. The valley is surrounded by the mountains of

Otto Pettersonfjellet Otto Pettersonfjellet is a mountain in Nathorst Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It extends over a length of about seven kilometers, and its highest peak is 1,076 m.a.s.l. Height above mean sea level is a measure of the Vertical position, vertical ...

Marlowfjellet Marlowfjellet is a mountain in Nathorst Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has three peaks of 1,052, 1,016 and 1,022, m.a.s.l., respectively, and extends over a length of about six kilometers. The mountain is surrounded by the glaciers of Sysselma ...

and

Brogniartfjella Brogniartfjella is a mountain ridge in Nathorst Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The ridge is located at the north side of Van Keulenfjorden. It has a length of about eight kilometers, and its highest peak is 904 m.a.s.l. The ridge is named after Fre ...

. The glaciers of

Sysselmannbreen Sysselmannbreen is a glacier in Nathorst Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a length of about eleven kilometers, and extends southwestwards from the mountain of Kvitskarvet to the valley of Steenstrupdalen. The mountain of Marlowfjellet separa ...

and

Steenstrupbreen Steenstrupbreen is a glacier in Nathorst Land at Spitsbergen Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently ...

end up into the valley.

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Valleys of Spitsbergen {{Spitsbergen-geo-stub