Tempelfjorden is a fjord branch at the inner end of

Sassenfjorden Sassenfjorden is a part of Isfjorden at Spitsbergen, Svalbard, in between Bünsow Land and Nordenskiöld Land Nordenskiöld Land is the land area between Isfjorden and Van Mijenfjorden on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The area is named after Finnis ...

, a part of Isfjorden at

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 located between

Sabine Land Sabine Land ( ) is a land area on the east coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard Svalbard ( , ), also known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it is about midway between the ...

and

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. Bünsow Land is named after Friedrich Christian Ernestus Bünsow. Bünsow Land i ...

. The fjord is named after the mountain Templet, which resembles a

temple A temple (from the Latin ) is a building reserved for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice. Religions which erect temples include Christianity (whose temples are typically called church (building), churches), Hindui ...

. Between 2002 and 2015, the sailing vessel ''Noorderlicht'' was intentionally frozen into Tempelfjorden every winter.

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