Raudfjorden

Raudfjorden (English: Red fjord) is a 20 km long and 5 km wide fjord on the northwestern coast of Spitsbergen.

It has two southern branches, Klinckowströmfjorden and Ayerfjorden, split by the peninsula Buchananhalvøya.

Raudfjorden was named Red-cliff Sound by Robert Fotherby, an English explorer and whaler, in 1614.

The same year the Dutch named the fjord Monier Bay, after the commissary-general of their whaling fleet that year, Anthonie Monier.

The cape separating its two southern branches was named Point Deceit by Fotherby the same year he explored the fjord, which is now known by its Norwegian equivalent, Narreneset.