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Bjørnbeinflya

coastal plain of Spitsbergen, Norway

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 6, 2023
Entity authorityQ16842585 ↗
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Bjørnbeinflya is a coastal plain in Sørkapp Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is located at the southwestern shore of Spitsbergen, northwest of the bay Stormbukta, between Olsokflya and Vitkovskijbreen. The headland Fisneset separates Bjørnbeinflya from Olsokflya. Further northwest along the shore is the plain Tørrflya.

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The public source identifies “Bjørnbeinflya” as coastal plain of Spitsbergen, Norway. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bjørnbeinflya, coastal and plain.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bjørnbeinflya” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.