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Portion of 1599 map of Arctic exploration by the Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz. Spitsbergen, here mapped for the first time, appears as Het Nieuwe Land (Dutch for "the New Land"), center-left. The Dutch navigator Willem Barentsz gave Spitsbergen its name when he discovered it in 1596.
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]
The map is created partially based on output from OpenStreetMap. The icon for bird sanctuary is a modification of File:Ruddy-turnstone-icon.png . Norsk bokmål: Beliggenhet av Nordvest-Spitsbergen naturreservat i Svalbard.
Map of Norway showing the location of Svalbard and Jan Mayen. The ISO designation is congruent with an equivalent United Nations Statistics Division category and users of these classification systems may in some cases report separately for "Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands" instead of rolling up this information into the "Norway" category. [11]
Svalbard has many mineral resources, and coal was mined extensively on the west side of Spitsbergen. [1] Ice floes often block up the entrance to Bellsund (a transit point for coal exports) on the west coast and occasionally make parts of the northeastern coast inaccessible to maritime traffic
Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park (Norwegian: Nordvest-Spitsbergen nasjonalpark) is located on the Norwegian arctic archipelago of Svalbard and includes parts of north-west Spitsbergen (Albert I Land and Haakon VII Land) and nearby islands such as Danes Island and Moffen. It contains, among other things, warm springs and remains of volcanoes ...
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.