Indre Wijdefjorden National Park

Local nameIndre Wijdefjorden nasjonalpark
LocationSvalbard, Norway

Indre Wijdefjorden National Park is located in a steep fjord landscape in northern Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway. It covers the inner part of Wijdefjorden—the longest fjord on Svalbard. The national park was established on 9 September 2005 and covers 1,127 km2, of which 745 km2 is on land and 382 km2 is sea. The marine environment changes vastly from the mouth of the fjord, through a still, cold, water basin, becoming deeper before reaching the glacier Mittag-Lefflerbreen at the inner-most sections of the fjord.

On both sides of Wijdefjorden there is High Arctic steppe vegetation, dominated by grasses and extremely dry, basic earth. There are some areas dominated by exposure of mineral earth. The area around the fjord has a vegetation which is unique and not preserved in other areas of Svalbard.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indre_Wijdefjorden_National_Park

Address Norway

Coordinates 79°9'54.508" N 15°51'11.776" E

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