{{Short description|Bay in Svalbard, Norway}} [[File:Colesdalen 8978.jpg|thumb|Colesdalen, with Colesbukta to the right]] '''Colesbukta''' is a bay at the southern side of Isfjorden, in Nordenskiöld Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The bay is about 4.5 kilometers wide. A railway for coal transport was earlier operated between Grumantbyen and shipment facilities in Colesbukta.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://placenames.npolar.no/stadnamn/Colesbukta?ident=2379|title=Colesbukta (Svalbard) |publisher=Norwegian Polar Institute |access-date=30 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Arctic Pilot: Sailing directions Svalbard–Jan Mayen |year=1988 | volume =7 |publisher=The Norwegian Hydrographic Service and The Norwegian Polar Institute |location=Stavanger |isbn=82-90653-06-9 |pages=219, 227 }}</ref> The valley Colesdalen debouches into Colesbukta.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://placenames.npolar.no/stadnamn/Colesdalen |title=Colesdalen (Svalbard) |publisher=Norwegian Polar Institute |access-date=30 June 2013 |archive-date=15 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815051513/http://placenames.npolar.no/stadnamn/Colesdalen |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The cabin built by the Russian geologist Vladimir Rusanov in 1912 at the entrance to Colesbukta has been turned into a small self-guided museum. Other buildings and facilities in the old Soviet settlement remain abandoned.
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