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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 .
[1] [2] The area is 61,022 square kilometres (23,561 sq mi) and there were 2,595 residents in September 2024 Spitsbergen is the largest island, followed by Nordaustlandet and Edgeøya. [3] The administrative center is Longyearbyen , and other settlements, in addition to research outposts, are the Russian mining community of Barentsburg , the ...
The archipelago is the northernmost part of Norway. Three islands are populated: Spitsbergen, Bear Island and Hopen. The capital and largest settlement is Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen. The Spitsbergen Treaty recognises Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard and the 1925 Svalbard Act makes Svalbard a full part of the Norwegian Kingdom.
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.
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.
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.
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The west coast of Spitsbergen remains navigable most of the year, due to favorable winds which keep the area ice-free. Norway claims a 200 nmi (370.4 km; 230.2 mi) fishery protection zone, but this is not recognized by neighboring Russia.