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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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
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]
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