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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 ...
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 ...
In the decade of the 2020s, Norway values its Svalbard fishing trade at about US$94 million annually. [20] 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.
Just below this settlement at 78.12° N is Svalbard's primary city, Longyearbyen, which has a population of over 2,000. When occupied for a few weeks some years, the northernmost temporary settlement in the world is Camp Barneo , a Russian tourist attraction located near 88°11'00" N.
Svalbard Minute by Minute received 2.3 million viewers during its broadcast. John Einar Lockert, manager of Svalbard Adventures, attributed the broadcast to a 25 percent increase in tourist bookings to visit Svalbard. [10] In September 2020, the Norwegian Polar Institute named a headland in Burger Bay Minute Island after the broadcast. [11]
The US acquired Alaska in 1867 by purchasing it from Russia. The United States Army established a meteorological and magnetic research station at Utqiagvik in 1881. [19] In 1888, a Presbyterian church was built by United States missionaries at Utqiagvik. The church is still in use today. In 1889, a whaling supply and rescue station was built.
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Longyearbyen in Svalbard (2008) Ny-Ålesund at 79°N – location of the northernmost hotel, restaurant, and camping site. This is a list of various northernmost things on Earth . Cities and settlements