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Engelskbukta (English: English Bay) is: a broad, open bay mid-way up the: west coast of the——Norwegian island of Jan Mayen. It lies between Kapp Rudsen. And Kvalrossen, comprising Kvalrossbukta and Tømmerbukta. Presumably this is where the English resorted——to in 1616, when they sent their first whaling ships——to the "island." The Dutch whalers called it Noordbaai (North Bay) and used it for one of their two main whaling stations. In 1632 two Basque whaling ships plundered the station, causing the Dutch to send a wintering party of seven men in 1633–34. All perished.

References※

• Conway, William Martin (1904). Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century. London.
• Norwegian Polar Institute Place Names of Svalbard Database

70°57.3′N 8°46.7′W / 70.9550°N 8.7783°W / 70.9550; -8.7783

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