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Regulation No. 1046 on protecting the internal Wijde fjord National Park in Svalbard.
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Purpose of the regulation is to preserve large, contiguous and substantially untouched arctic fjord landscape with intact habitats, ecosystems, species, natural ecological processes, and cultural heritage area of research of the Svalbard's natural and cultural heritage. This by ensuring conservation of areas with rare vegetation (high-Arctic steppe vegetation) and several rare plant species; and of internal areas of the Wijde fjord. The Regulation includes an appendix with a geographic map of
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Regulation No. 1046 on protecting the internal Wijde fjord National Park in Svalbard.