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
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