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The Swedes have settled Svalbard since the turn of the 20th century. The Swedes played a significant role in the early exploration, mining, and scientific study of Svalbard . Swedish interest in the archipelago began with Arctic expeditions led by geologists and explorers such as Otto Martin Torell and Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld .
In the Age of Discovery (Age of Exploration), the Dutch were the first (non-natives) to undisputedly explore and map many unknown isolated areas of the world, such as the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Map of Svalbard dating from 1758. There is no conclusive evidence of the first human activity on Svalbard.
English: Map of preserved areas on Svalbard, Norway. National parks in green; nature reserves in purple; geotope protect areas in orange; bird sanctuaries with a bird icon; seas in blue and islands in black. The map is created partially based on output from OpenStreetMap.
Norway Svalbard regions and lands.jpg Svalbard Wikiexpedition 2010-project of routes-v1.svg This map has been made or improved in the German Kartenwerkstatt (Map Lab) .
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Svalbard (/ ˈ s v ɑː l b ɑːr (d)/ SVAHL-bar(d), [4] Urban East Norwegian: [ˈsvɑ̂ːɫbɑr]), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean.
English: Blank administrative location map of Svalbard archipelago, Norway. Note: The shaded relief is a raster image embedded in the SVG file. Français : Carte administrative vierge de l’archipel du Svalbard , Norvège, destinée à la géolocalisation.
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