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unusual facts about Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard



Ace Combat

Strangereal also contains scattered and/or distorted Earth landmasses, such as a distorted Mediterranean near the equator, and Svalbard and Britain-like islands in the north.

Agardhelva

Agardhelva is a river forming the border between Sabine Land and Heer Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard.

Axel Revold

Revold was born in Ålesund as the son of merchant Julius Revold and Johanne Hjelpsten.

Barents

Barentsburg, second largest settlement in the Svalbard archipelago

Borgund

Borgund, Møre og Romsdal, a former municipality now part of Ålesund municipality

Camp Morton, Svalbard

Camp Morton (also known as Camp Douglas) was a coal mining encampment on Svalbard island in Norway (the island was then known as Spitsbergen).

Cartosat-2A

The satellite's health is continuously monitored from the Spacecraft Control Centre at Bangalore with the help of ISTRAC network of stations at Bangalore, Lucknow, Mauritius, Bearslake in Russia, Biak in Indonesia and Svalbard in Norway.

Chans

The sleeve has photos taken by Jonas Linell on the arctic Norwegian island of Svalbard.

Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave

They sailed beyond Svalbard to the Seven Islands, but were forced back by the ice and returned to Orfordness on 17 September.

Dedé Anderson

In January 2009 he finally returned to Ålesund determined to play out the final season of his contract with Aalesund.

Fritz Schaudinn

In 1898 with zoologist Fritz Römer (1866-1909), he participated on a scientific trip to Svalbard.

German destroyer Z8 Bruno Heinemann

Bruno Heinemann had been fitted with four of the new weapons and they were removed after gunnery trials off Ålesund were completed.

Gulating

The Gulaþing received delegates from Lyngør in the south to north of Ålesund, and its laws were observed from the eastern inland valleys of Valdres and Hallingdal to the Faroe Islands in the west.

Hans-Otto Borgmann

A melody he had composed for a documentary on Svalbard island and had become well known was taken up by Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach who wrote new lyrics as "Our flag flutters before us", becoming one of the Hitler Youth's anthems.

Harpalus affinis

In Europe, it is only absent in the following countries or islands: the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Channel Islands, Crete, Cyclades, Dodecanese, the Faroe Islands, Franz Josef Land, Gibraltar, Iceland, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, the North Aegean islands, Novaya Zemlya, San Marino, the Savage Islands, Sicily, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Vatican City.

Harpalus anxius

In Europe, it is only absent in the following countries or islands: Andorra, the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Channel Islands, Crete, Cyclades, Cyprus, Dodecanese, the Faroe Islands, Franz Josef Land, Gibraltar, Iceland, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, the North Aegean islands, Norway, Novaya Zemlya, Portugal, San Marino, the Savage Islands, Sicily, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Vatican City.

Henry Rudi

Areas in which Henry Rudi spent several winters, include Svalbard, Jan Mayen and Greenland.

Kjærlighetens kjøtere

Their conflict plays out in isolation amidst stunningly bleak arctic scenery, filmed in Svalbard.

Lene Løseth

Lene Løseth (born 26 November 1986 in Ålesund) is a Norwegian alpine skier who races for Spjelkavik IL.

Longyear

Longyearbyen, the largest settlement in Norway's Svalbard archipelago

Martinfjella

Martinfjella is a mountain range in Wedel Jarlsberg Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard.

Mikal Angell Jacobus Landmark

Born in Ålesund, he was a great-grandson of a Jens Landmark (1772–1811), brother of Andreas (1769–1839) and Nils Landmark (1775–1859) and uncle of Jens Landmark (1811–1880).

Muirs

Muirs has played his unique live show in various countries including Scotland, England, New Zealand and Svalbard using a variety of different software and Midi Controllers.

Myklebost

Myklebost, Ålesund, a village in Ålesund municipality, Møre og Romsdal, Norway

Nanoq

The museum hosts an exhibition about famous polar expeditions and displays many items, e.g. the balloon gondola from S.A. Andrée's fateful expedition and material from the John Phipps expedition to Svalbard around 1770, as well as several documents that refer to the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen.

Nebria brevicollis

In Europe, it is found in all countries and islands except the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Channel Islands, Franz Josef Land, Gibraltar, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, the North Aegean Islands, Novaya Zemlya, San Marino, the Selvagens Islands, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Vatican City.

NoCGV Svalbard

On 9 July 2007 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper had announced that Canada would be building six to eight corvettes modeled after the Svalbards design.

Norlandair

It also operates various charter flights in Iceland and Greenland, to Svalbard and other arctic regions.

Norway Pelagic

In August 2011, the company head office was relocated from Vågsøy municipality to Ålesund.

Norway's Next Top Model

With Martina Lervik, another girl from Ålesund also won the sixth Cycle which was running from September to December 2008.

Norway's Next Top Model, Cycle 5

At last, 18 year old Kamilla Alnes from Ålesund triumphed over fellow finalists Ivanna Petrova and Polina Barbasova.

Ny-Ålesund

Ny-Ålesund ("New Ålesund") is one of the four permanent settlements on the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago.

2008 — India inaugurates the Himadri Station, its first Arctic research station, in Ny-Ålesund

Papaver dahlianum

Despite the extreme northern latitude of the Svalbard poppy, another separate poppy species, Papaver radicatum, is the furthest northernly growing plant known to the world.

Parapopanoceras

Fossils have been found in Svalbard, British Columbia, the Russian Federation, and possibly Papua New Guinea.

Piramida

Pyramiden, an abandoned Russian coal mining community on Svalbard, Norway

Promens

During 1999-2000 Sæplast acquired three companies abroad; in 1999 the Dyno AS factories in Ålesund, Norway and St. John, Canada, and in 2000, Nordic Supplies Container AS of Norway.

Robin Berntsen

Berntsen had played for Tromsø in his youthyears and came back in 1991 after living at Svalbard for one year.

Russell Owen

That year he covered the air race to the North Pole, flying with Roald Amundsen (airship Norge) as far as Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard and meeting Richard Evelyn Byrd there.

Sassenelva

Sassenelva is a river flowing through Sassendalen in Sabine Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard.

Seip mountain

Seip mountain or Seipefjellet (in Norwegian) in Svalbard is a mountain with the peaks 720 and 710 masl, between Orustdalen, Vestre Grønnfjordbreen and Dahlfonna, west in Nordenskiöld Land.

Sholto Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton

Sholto George Watson Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton, DL (5 November 1844 – 8 October 1935) was a major landowner in Scotland, a businessman with mining investments in what is now Svalbard, Norway, and politician, serving as a representative peer (1886-1935) after being elected by the Peerage of Scotland.

Spökstad

Just like Chans, the CD is partially transparent and the sleeve has photos taken by Jonas Linell on Svalbard.

Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence

It is responsible for policies relating foreign affairs, military, development cooperation, Svalbard or in other polar regions and matters in general relating to agreements between Norway and other states or organizations.

Struvefjella

Struvefjella is a mountain range in Sørkapp Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard.

Svalbard in fiction

Svalbard is the home of the armored polar bears in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.

Dark Matter, by Michelle Paver, is a ghost story set in 1937 in an isolated bay in Svalbard.


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