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Kvadehuksletta

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Kvadehuksletta is a plain located on the outermost part of the peninsula of Brøggerhalvøya on the west coast of the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway. It takes its name after Kvadehuken, the outermost part of the peninsula. It is again a Norwegianization of the Dutch "Quade hoek", which means bad corner.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Norsk Polar Navigasjon proposed building an airport at Kvadehuksletta.

References

  1. "Kvadehuksletta". Norwegian Polar Institute. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  2. "Kvadehuken". Norwegian Polar Institute. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  3. Hanoa, Rolf (1993). Kings Bay Kull Comp. A/S 1917–1992 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Schibsted. p. 196. ISBN 82-516-1448-1.

78°58′N 11°28′E / 78.97°N 11.46°E / 78.97; 11.46


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