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Spitsbergen
The name of Spitsbergen (or Spitzbergen ), the major island of the Svalbard archipelago, often popularly or historically refers to the whole Svalbard group. In such contexts the island formerly bore the name of West Spitsbergen . The largest settlement is Longyearbyen. Early whaling expeditions to ...
Bergen
) concentration camp Bergen-Belsen Spitzbergen, a.k.a. Svalbard ...
Nordaustlandet
Nordaustlandet (sometimes translated as North East Land ) is the second largest island of Svalbard, with an area of 14,600 km². As its name suggests, it lies north east of Spitzbergen. Much of Nordaustlandet lies under large ice caps, Austfonna, Vestfonna and Sørfonna, the remaining parts of the ...
Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen
during his stay at Spitzbergen from 1907 to 1909. In 1910 he was one of Roald Amundsen's men in ...
List of mountains on the Moon
Montes Secchi Montes Spitzbergen T Montes Taurus Montes Teneriffe U Mons Usov V Mons Vinogradov ...
Little Auk
Spitzbergen, and A. a. polaris on Franz Josef Land. Their breeding habitat is coastal mountainsides ...
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Zealand Norway (other than Spitzbergen) Portugal Saint Kitts and Nevis Salomon Islands Seychelles ...
Oskar Backlund
carried out geodesic studies in Spitzbergen from 1898 to 1900. He became a member of the Saint ...
1926 in aviation
leaves Spitzbergen and arrives in Teller, Alaska three days later. June June 30 - Alan Cobham sets out ...
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11  German battleship Scharnhorst
exercises over the next several months climaxed in a bombardment of Spitzbergen on 8 September 1943. On ...
12  History of whaling
1611 and centered on the waters near Spitzbergen. A five-way international struggle soon developed... whalers that it returned from Spitzbergen without having caught a single whale. A compromise peace was... waters in search of them. Whalers sailed to Spitzbergen, anchored, and set up temporary processing ...
13  Roald Amundsen
Spitzbergen May 11, 1926 and landed in Alaska two days later. Amundsen died in 1928 in an airplane crash in ...
14  Franz Josef Land
Franz Josef Land is an archipelago located in far north Russia. It is found in the Arctic Ocean northeast of Spitzbergen, and is administered by Arkhangelsk Oblast. At latitude 80 to 82° north, it forms the most northerly group of islands in Asia. The archipelago is only 550 miles from the North ...
15  HMS Antelope
the coaling facilities on Spitzbergen, thus denying the coal to the enemy. In 1942 and 1943 ...


 
 
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