Indre Wijdefjorden National Park protects the inner reaches of Wijdefjorden, at 108 kilometers the longest fjord on Svalbard, in northern Spitsbergen, Norway, established on 9 September 2005. Covering 1,127 square kilometers, 745 of them land and 382 marine, it is the smallest national park on Svalbard, with steep terrain along a fjord that narrows dramatically to about 50 meters at Elvetangen before opening into a 250 meter deep inland basin. It contains Europe's only High Arctic steppe ecosystem, including plant species found nowhere else on Svalbard, and supports polar bears, Svalbard reindeer, Arctic foxes and breeding pink-footed geese.
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Designation Category Established Year Area (sq km) Governing BodyNorwegian Directorate for Nature Management 1 IUCN Category Classification
Governance TypeGovernance by Government 1 Governing Body
Governing Body (category)Directorate for Nature Management 1 Sources
1. Indre Wijdefjorden National Park (Wikipedia)
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Indre Wijdefjorden National Park (Norwegian: Indre Wijdefjorden nasjonalpark) is located in a steep fjord landscape in northern Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway.
Introduction
Indre Wijdefjorden National Park protects the inner reaches of Wijdefjorden, at 108 kilometers the longest fjord on Svalbard, in northern Spitsbergen, Norway, established on 9 September 2005.
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Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management
View the Source2. Indre Wijdefjorden National Park (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation- Wikidata P2046 (area), preferred/latest rank
- Wikidata P31 (instance of) = Q46169
Wikidata item Q1661839
P31 protected-area class match, verified by search+class allow-list
- Part Of: Norway, Wikidata item, property P17 (country)
View the Source Wikidata: Indre Wijdefjorden National Park
Wikidata Q1661839, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Wikidata: Norway
On Continent: Europe, Wikidata item for Norway, property P30 (continent)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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