Ny-Ålesund
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Ny-Ålesund is an unincorporated settlement in Oscar II Land in the west of the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard. It is situated on the Brøgger peninsula and on the shore of the bay of Kongsfjorden. T
Ny-Ålesund in June 2013
The town in the late 1910s
Norge in Ny-Ålesund on 7 May 1926
Miners in the Agnes Mine
Svalbard
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Svalbard, formerly Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it lies about midway betwe
Satellite photo of Svalbard made by Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, August 2022
Late-summer satellite view of Spitsbergen, showing the Holmstrom Glacier and meltwater pools stained deep-red by glacial silt, from erosion of soft, iron-rich Devonian sediments
The whaling station of the Amsterdam chamber of the Northern Company in Smeerenburg, by Cornelis de Man (1639), but based on a painting of a Dansk hvalfangststation (Danish whaling station) by A.B.R. Speeck (1634), which represented the Danish station in Copenhagen Bay (Kobbefjorden)
Demolition of the wireless station during Operation Gauntlet in 1941