Tjuvfjorden

{{Short description|Fjord in Svalbard, Norway}}

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Tjuvfjorden ({{langx|en|Robber or Thief Fjord}}) is a 45 km long and up to 30 km wide fjord separating Edgeøya’s two southern promontories, Kvalpynten (Whale Point) and Svarthuken (old name: Negro Point).

The fjord was originally named Deicrowe's Sound by the English in 1616 after Benjamin Decrow, who was a leading figure of the Muscovy Company from 1610 onwards. This name appears on the Muscovy Company's map (1625){{cite book|author=Conway, Martin.|title=No Man's Land: A History of Spitsbergen from its Discovery in 1596 to the Beginning of the Scientific Exploration of the Country|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bt88AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA364|year=1982|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|page=364}} down to at least William Scoresby’s (1820).{{citation required|date=November 2019}}