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10 unusual facts about Svalbard


Chans

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

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.

Jon Amtrup

The last five years he has sailed the Norwegian coast a number of times and also circumnavigated Svalbard.

Kjærlighetens kjøtere

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

Kjell Henriksen

For his effort in researching the Polar Lights a new observatory has been named after him, the Kjell Henriksen Observatory on Svalbard.

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.

Norlandair

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

Parapopanoceras

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

Robin Berntsen

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

Spökstad

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

Alex Hartley

In 2004, whilst participating in a Cape Farewell Arctic expedition, Hartley discovered Nyskjæret, an island about the size of a football field, in the archipelago of Svalbard, a Norwegian territory in the Arctic Ocean.

Atomfjella

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

Barents

Barentsburg, second largest settlement in the Svalbard archipelago

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.

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.

Fritz Schaudinn

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

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.

John Longyear

John Munro Longyear (1850-1922), his son, best known as the founder of Longyearbyen in Svalbard, Norway

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.

Longyear

Longyearbyen, the largest settlement in Norway's Svalbard archipelago

Martinfjella

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

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.

Norwegian rocket incident

The rocket, which carried scientific equipment to study the aurora borealis over Svalbard, flew on a high northbound trajectory, which included an air corridor that stretches from Minuteman-III nuclear missile silos in North Dakota, all the way to the Russian capital city of Moscow.

Ny-Ålesund

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

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.

Piramida

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

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.

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.

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.

Svalbard Satellite Station

For the EOS program, Svalbard was supplemented by Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Werner Werenskiold

Werenskiold made field studies in Telemark and Gudbrandsdalen in his younger days, and later focused on studies at Svalbard and of glaciers in Jotunheimen.