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
Longyearbyen
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Longyearbyen is one of the world's northernmost settlements, with an estimated population of around 2,400–2,800, and is the capital and largest settled area of Svalbard. It stretches along the foot of
Ny-Ålesund
…and cannel coal, with a high petroleum content (16–25 percent) and high sulphuric contents (2 percent). This is the same formation as the coal mines in Longyearbyen and Sveagruva, but the Ny-Ålesund layer has been shifted in relation to these. Ny-Ålesund has a road network that connects the buildings at the settlement…
Longyearbyen spisshus 2022
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Longyearbyen, Norway
1973HDR Longyearbyen