Norwegian Polar Institute
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The Norwegian Polar Institute is Norway's central governmental institution for scientific research, mapping and environmental monitoring in the Arctic and the Antarctic. The NPI is a directorate under
The Norwegian Polar Institute's office building in Tromsø
Harald Sverdrup, the first director of the NPI
Sverdrup Station in Svalbard
Research vessel Kronprins Haakon co-owned by the institute in the port of Longyearbyen at the start of GoNorth expedition
Bouvet Island
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Bouvet Island is an uninhabited subantarctic volcanic island and dependency of Norway. A protected nature reserve situated in the South Atlantic Ocean at the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, it
Hand-coloured photograph of the southeast coast of Bouvet Island in 1898
The claiming of the island on 1 December 1927
The first hut, built on Cape Circoncision, in 1929
Glacier on Bouvet Island's west coast