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Prins Oscars Land
Prins
Oscars
Land
is a
land area
constituting mainly
Platenhalvøya
, a peninsula between
Rijpfjorden
in
the west
and
Duvefjorden
with
Fortherbyfjorden
and
Innvika
on
Nordaustlandet
,
Svalbard
in
Arctic Norway
.
Bordering
Gustav V Land
to the
west
,
Gustav Adolf Land
to
the south
,
Orvin Land
and
Austfonna
to the
east
.
Limit
over land through
Rijpdalen
and
Flaumdalen
in the west, to
Winsnesbreen
in the
south
, the
lower
part of Austfonna, through
Fonndalen
and
Innvikdalen
to the east.
Named after
Prince
Oscar
, later
King
Oscar II of Norway
and
Sweden
.