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The company conducts both teaching and scientific research. The original UNIS building opened in 1995. The new Svalbard Science Centre, designed by Jarmund/Vigsnæs architects, was officially opened on April 26, 2006, by the King and the Queen of Norway. [1] On September 2, 2009, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon visited ...
In the decade of the 2020s, Norway values its Svalbard fishing trade at about US$94 million annually. [19] The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) has 350 students and a permanent faculty of 40 professors and assistants and 120 guest lecturers. UNIS does not offer degrees, but instead offers semester courses in biology, physics and geology.
A year in Svalbard is marked by two unusual periods of light: polar night and midnight sun. Polar night runs from mid-November to the end of January, when the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon.
The Svalbard Treaty of 1920 [18] defines Svalbard as all islands, islets, and skerries from 74° to 81° north latitude, and from 10° to 35° east longitude. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The land area is 61,022 km 2 (23,561 sq mi), and dominated by the island of Spitsbergen, which constitutes more than half the archipelago, followed by Nordaustlandet and ...
University Centre in Svalbard; S. Svalbard Museum This page was last edited on 15 December 2022, at 02:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The main building of the University Centre in Svalbard. Academic grading in Svalbard is performed at the University Centre in Svalbard and at the Longyearbyen School. The University Center of Svalbard use the same university grading system as in mainland Norway: [1]
Location Control Carnegie Classification Enrollment (2022) [1] Founded [2] University of Alaska Anchorage: Anchorage: Public Master's university: 10,464 1954 University of Alaska Fairbanks: Fairbanks: Public Doctoral university: 6,607 1917 University of Alaska Southeast: Juneau: Public Master's university: 1,923 1972 Alaska Bible College ...
Andøya Space, Andøya, Svalbard Norway 1994 Arctic Yellow River Station: Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway China 2003 25 2 AWIPEV Arctic Research Station (Rabot/Jean Corbel Stations) Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway France Germany 2003/1963 40/<8 3 Barrow Observatory [3] Point Barrow, Alaska United States 1973 2 2