Barentsburg
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Barentsburg is the second-largest settlement in Svalbard, Norway, with about 300 inhabitants. A coal mining town, the settlement is now almost entirely made up of Russian nationals.
The town from above
The Russian consulate in Barentsburg
Barentsburg mining town in summer 1989
Barentsburg Kindergarten, August 1989
Spitsbergen
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Spitsbergen is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway in the Arctic Ocean.
Barentsburg
…inhabitants (2025). A coal mining town, the settlement is now almost entirely made up of Russian nationals. Rijpsburg, a now abandoned Dutch settlement on Spitsbergen on Cape Boheman (Bohemanflya), at the north site of Nordfjorden in the Isfjord, stood roughly diagonally opposite Longyearbyen. The Rotterdam-based Van…
Dutch whalers near Spitsbergen by Abraham Storck (1690)
A 1906 photograph of the Norwegian whaling factory ship Bucentaur in Bellsund, Spitsbergen
Hornsund Polish Arctic Station, photographed in 2003
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