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.
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
Lilliehöökfjorden
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.
Spitsbergen
…36th largest in the world. The administrative centre is Longyearbyen. Other settlements, in addition to research outposts, are the mining community of Barentsburg, the research community of Ny-Ålesund, and the mining outpost of Sveagruva. Spitsbergen was covered in 21,977 km2 (8,485 sq mi) of ice in 1999, which…
The town from above
The Russian consulate in Barentsburg
Barentsburg mining town in summer 1989
Barentsburg Kindergarten, August 1989