Sørkapp

Sørkapp ("South Cape") is the southernmost point on Sørkappøya, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of Spitsbergen of Svalbard, Norway. The cape itself is 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) long.[1] The point borders to the Greenland Sea to the west, the Norwegian Sea to the south and the Barents Sea to the east. The point is within Sørkapp Bird Sanctuary.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Sørkapp". Norwegian Polar Institute. http://miljo.npolar.no/placenames/pages/detaile.asp?placeNameID=814554P. Retrieved 27 March 2010. 
  2. ^ "Verneområdene på Svalbard" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management. http://www.dirnat.no/attachment.ap?id=633. Retrieved 24 March 2010.