Kobbefjorden
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Kobbefjorden (English: Seal fjord) is a small fjord on the west coast of Danskøya, on the northwestern coast of Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago.
[edit] History
Kobbefjorden is merely a translation of the Dutch term for the fjord, Robbe Bay, which appeared on Dutch maps from Michiel Hsz. Middelhoven’s (1634) to that of Cornelis Giles and Outger Rep (c. 1710). The latter men added the alternative name Danes Bay, which Cornelius Gisbert Zorgdrager (1720) and William Scoresby (1820) copied. The fjord was first used by Danish whalers in about 1625. They established a whaling station here, which was probably used until mid-century.
[edit] References
- Conway, W. M. 1906. No Man’s Land: A History of Spitsbergen from Its Discovery in 1596 to the Beginning of the Scientific Exploration of the Country. Cambridge: At the University Press.
- Norwegian Polar Institute Place Names of Svalbard Database
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