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Bellsund
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English
Etymology
en no Bellsund, itself a reborrowing from en Bell Sound, named by Jonas Poole because of a local bell-shaped mountain (now known as nn 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.
Proper noun
en sound co/Svalbard c/Norway.
Synonyms
en Clock Bay obsolete, rare
en terms borrowed back into English