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Spitsbergen covers an area of 37,673 km 2 (14,546 sq mi), making it the largest island in Norway and the 36th largest in the world. The administrative centre is Longyearbyen . Other settlements, in addition to research outposts, are the mining community of Barentsburg , the research community of Ny-Ålesund , and the mining outpost of Sveagruva .
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.
The location of Svalbard An enlargeable map of Svalbard. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Svalbard: . Svalbard – incorporated territory of the Kingdom of Norway comprising the Svalbard Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean about midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. [1]
MODIS satellite photo of Svalbard, courtesy NASA. Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean roughly centered on 78° north latitude and 20° east longitude.It constitutes the northernmost territory of the Kingdom of Norway.
Spitsbergen_1758.jpg (800 × 586 pixels, file size: 163 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
English: Location of Nordvest-Spitsbergen Nature Reserve in Svalbard. Other national parks in green; other nature reserves in purple; geotop protect areas in orange; bird sanctuaries with a bird icon. The map is created partially based on output from OpenStreetMap. The icon for bird sanctuary is a modification of File:Ruddy-turnstone-icon.png.
Albert I Land is located at the northwestern corner of Spitsbergen. Map of the northern part of Albert I Land. 1598 map of the arctic by Willem Barentsz, showing Albert I Land. Albert I Land is the land area of the northwestern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. [1] It is bordered by Haakon VII Land [2] to the southeast.
English: Location of Sør-Spitsbergen Land National Park in Svalbard. Other national parks in green; other nature reserves in purple; geotope protect areas in orange; bird sanctuaries with a bird icon. The map is created partially based on output from OpenStreetMap. The icon for bird sanctuary is a modification of File:Ruddy-turnstone-icon.png.