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25 unusual facts about Spitsbergen


Auguste Bravais

He participated in the Recherche expedition and helped the Lilloise in Spitsbergen and Lapland.

Bentley Beetham

Beetham made numerous expeditions to other ranges in the world, including the Tatra Mountains of Czechoslovakia, Chile, the Drakensberg, the Lofoten islands and Spitsbergen.

Boddam, Aberdeenshire

The area around the headland of Buchan Ness was for many centuries the point from which trading and whaling voyages departed across open ocean, bound for Archangel, Greenland and Spitsbergen amongst other destinations.

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).

Charles Manegold, Jr.

He has also benefited greatly by travel abroad and has visited Spitsbergen.

Cornelis de Man

This unusual painting was a studio reconstruction of the factory in Spitsbergen, based on a Danish original.

Einar Lundborg

In 1928 he rescued Umberto Nobile after Nobile's airship crash on the ice north of Spitsbergen.

Florian Święs

Rośliny naczyniowe południowego obrzeża Bellsundu (Spitsbergen Zachodni).

German destroyer Z33

She took part in the German raid on Spitsbergen (Operation Zitronella) in September 1943 where she was damaged by a coastal battery.

Johan Adrian Jacobsen

For seven years, beginning in 1867, he was member of a whaling crew on the Spitsbergen and Murman coasts.

John Munro Longyear

became the central figure behind the Arctic Coal Company which surveyed and mined coalfields on Spitsbergen, now Svalbard, from 1905 to 1916.

Józef Bartosik

In Garland he participated in action in the Mediterranean and the raid on Spitsbergen involving the evacuation of the Norwegian Royal family; as well as serving in convoys in the Arctic, Atlantic, near Iceland and the Mediterranean.

Kola, Russia

In the 17th century, it prospered as a starting point for naval expeditions of the Pomors to Spitsbergen and Novaya Zemlya.

Mikhail Plisetski

In 1932-1936 — headed the Soviet coal mines at Barentsburg on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen where he managed the coal concessions (trust "Arctic-carbon").

Nicolaus Copernicus University Polar Station

The Nicolaus Copernicus University Polar Station (Stacja Polarna Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika na Spitsbergenie) in north-western Spitsbergen, in the northern part of the Kaffiøyra close to Aavatsmarkbreen, has operated since 1975.

Øvre Richter Frich

He later spent twenty years travelling around the world, to exotic places like Spitsbergen and South America.

Plagiosternum

Plagiosternum (plae-jee-oh-ster-num, meaning "sideways breastbone") was a middle Triassic temnospondyl that is native to Spitsbergen.

S/V Rembrandt van Rijn

From 1994–96, Rembrandt van Rijn operated cruises to Spitsbergen, Norway.

Samuel Godin

Because of the recent troubles with English whalers around Spitsbergen the plan came up to catch whales in the Atlantic, near the North river.

SS Stalingrad

At 09.52 hours on 13 September, with the convoy 100 miles south west of Spitsbergen, it was sighted by U-408, which fired a spread of three torpedoes at it.

Stanisław Baranowski

Stanisław Baranowski (25 March 1935 – 27 August 1978) was a Polish glaciologist and leader or member of a number of scientific expeditions to Spitsbergen and Antarctica.

Stenopopanoceras

Stenopopanoceras is an involute, discoidal ceratitid ammonite from the Middle Triassic that has been found on Spitsbergen and in arctic Russia and British Columbia.

Syringonautilidae

Syringonautilus (K438) which has been found in the Alps, on Spitsbergen, in India and Japan has a rapidly expanding evolute shell with a perforate umbilicus and suboval whorl section.

Tom George Longstaff

He also made important explorations and climbs in Tibet, Nepal, the Karakoram, Spitsbergen, Greenland, and Baffin Island.

After the war, he took part in an Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen in 1921 and was chief medical officer and naturalist on the British Mount Everest Expedition of 1922.


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Agardhelva

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

Arktikugol

On 29 August 1996, the Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 en route to the Svalbard Airport, Longyear, with Arktikugol workers and their relatives aboard crashed into the mountain Operafjellet on Spitsbergen killing all 141 people on board.

Atomfjella

Atomfjella is a mountain range in Ny-Friesland at Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway.

Harpoon

Information about Erik Eriksen based on The Discovery of King Karl Land, Spitsbergen, by Adolf Hoel, The Geographical Review Vol.

Ivory Gull

The Ivory Gull was initially described by Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave in 1774 as Larus eburneus from a specimen collected on Spitsbergen.

Jonas Poole

On 6 May he came within sight of a mountain on the south coast of Spitsbergen, which he named Muscovy Company’s Mount (modern Hornsundtind).

Joris Carolus

Martin Conway argued in 1901 that Carolus’ chart indicated that he had discovered Edge Island; but, as Wielder points out, Conway was ignorant of a map (engraved in 1612) by the Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius, which illustrated a coastline to the east of Spitsbergen.

Louis Palander

After several other appointments at sea, Louis Palander participated in Nordenskiölds expedition to Spitsbergen in 1868, on board the steamer Sofia (the ship's captain was baron Fredrik von Otter).

Martinfjella

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

Nicholas Woodcock

In 1612, Woodcock piloted the first whaleship from San Sebastian, under Juan de Erauso, to Spitsbergen.

Ny-Ålesund

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

S/V Noorderlicht

Noorderlichts schedule is based at Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen with voyages within the Svalbard archipelago, the Lofoten Islands and to mainland locations, all within polar regions.

In winter Noorderlicht is intentionally frozen-in at Tempelfjorden, Spitsbergen to provide base-camp accommodation for arctic journeys.

Sassenelva

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

Struvefjella

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