English Explanatory Dictionary

Bellsund

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A sound in Svalbard, Norway.

Word forms

Bellsund

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian Bellsund, itself a reborrowing from Bell Sound, named by Jonas Poole because of a local bell-shaped mountain (now known as Klokkefjellet). According to Soviet sources, named after a big ancient bell raised by a Pomor merchant Ivan Starostin (or his ancestors), although this bell was located in Starostin Cape area far away from Bellsund many years after Poole’s expedition.

Synonyms

Clock Bay
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