John Munro Longyear (1850-1922), his son, best known as the founder of Longyearbyen in Svalbard, Norway
They went on to develop major coal-mining operations in the Advent Valley region and at Sveagruva, originally a Swedish coal-mining operation.
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became the central figure behind the Arctic Coal Company which surveyed and mined coalfields on Spitsbergen, now Svalbard, from 1905 to 1916.
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