Hornsund
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Hornsund is a fjord on the western side of the southernmost tip of Spitsbergen island.
The fjord's mouth faces west to the Greenland Sea, and is 12 km wide. The fjord length is 30 km, the mean depth is 90 m, and the maximal depth is 260 m. Hornsund cuts different geological formations, from the Precambrian to the west to the upper Mesozoic to the east, and it is perpendicular to the main regional fractures of Spitsbergen. The coastline of Hornsund is very diversified, with a number of embayments constituting mouth parts of valleys filled up with glaciers of mountain type protruding into the sea. Some of these embayments have appeared as late as the beginning of the last century due to recession of glaciers.
A Polish research station has been operating there since 1957.
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