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3 days ago · North of mainland Europe, it lies about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range from 74° to 81° north latitude, and from 10° to 35° east longitude. The largest island is Spitsbergen, followed in size by Nordaustlandet and Edgeøya.
- Visa Policy of Svalbard
Uniquely, the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, located in...
- Spitsbergen
Portion of 1599 map of Arctic exploration by the Dutch...
- Svalbard Church
Svalbard Church (Norwegian: Svalbard kirke) is a parish...
- Geography of Svalbard
MODIS satellite photo of Svalbard, courtesy NASA. Svalbard...
- Svalbard in Fiction
The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig, features a woman who, in...
- History of Svalbard
The polar archipelago of Svalbard was first discovered by...
- University Centre in Svalbard
The University Centre in Svalbard (Norwegian:...
- Climate of Svalbard
Average summer temperatures on Svalbard range from 3 to 7 °C...
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- Svalbard Airport, Longyear
Svalbard Airport (Norwegian: Svalbard lufthavn; IATA: LYR,...
- Visa Policy of Svalbard
2 days ago · Norway, country of northern Europe that occupies the western half of the Scandinavian peninsula. About two-thirds of Norway is mountainous, and its coastline is indented by deep glacial fjords. Offshore it includes some 50,000 islands. The capital is Oslo.
1 day ago · The Faroe or Faeroe Islands (/ ˈfɛəroʊ / FAIR-oh), or simply the Faroes (Faroese: Føroyar, pronounced [ˈfœɹjaɹ] ⓘ; Danish: Færøerne [ˈfeɐ̯ˌøˀɐnə]), are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
1 day ago · The history of Denmark as a unified kingdom began in the 8th century, but historic documents describe the geographic area and the people living there—the Danes —as early as 500 AD. These early documents include the writings of Jordanes and Procopius.
2 days ago · Finnland (finnisch Suomi ⓘ /? [ˈsuɔmi], schwedisch Finland [ˈfɪnland]), amtlich Republik Finnland (finnisch Suomen tasavalta, schwedisch Republiken Finland), ist eine parlamentarische Republik in Nordeuropa, seit 1995 Mitglied der Europäischen Union und seit 2023 Mitglied der NATO.
4 days ago · Russia's test site at Novaya Zemlya, around 80 kilometers from Finnmark in Northern Norway, is ready for the resumption of full-scale nuclear tests, according to its manager Andrey Sinitsin. (Norwegian only)
5 days ago · On their retreat from Finland in late 1944 and early 1945, however, the Germans burned and ravaged Finnmark and northern Troms. The Soviet troops who liberated eastern Finnmark in November 1944 withdrew during the summer of 1945.
