Spitsbergen

Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian: Vest Spitsbergen or Vestspitsbergen , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway in the Arctic Ocean.

Sveagruva (), or simply Svea, was a mining settlement in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, lying at the head of Van Mijenfjord. When occupied by the workers, it was the third largest settlement in the archipelago (after Longyearbyen and Barentsburg) but there were no permanent inhabitants. Around 300 workers living in Longyearbyen commuted to Sveagruva for work on a daily or weekly basis. The mine was operated by Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani. There is no road to Longyearbyen or any other settlements, so travel was by air from Svea Airport and coal transport by ship from a port sout

national park

protected area in Norway (Naturbase code: VV00002584)

aircraft crash in Svalbard, 1996

national park in the group of islands Spitsbergen, Norway

data preservation facility in Svalbard, Norway

Grumant () is a former Soviet company town in Svalbard, Norway, established in 1912 and abandoned in 1965. The population—including Coles Bay, which served the settlement's port—peaked at 1,106 in 1951. The name Grumant is of Pomory origin, and is also used to refer to the whole of the Svalbard archipelago. It may be a corruption of Greenland, with which the land was confused.

national park

land area on the east coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard

land area of the northwestern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard

land area at the northwestern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard

land area between Isfjorden and Wijdefjorden at Spitsbergen, Svalbard

land area between Isfjorden and Kongsfjorden on Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway

thumb|350px|Forlandsundet (labelled g) is on Spitsbergen's west coast Forlandsundet is an 88 km long sound separating Prins Karls Forland and Spitsbergen. Its northern limits are Fuglehuken to the west and Kvadehuken to the east. Its southern limits are Salpynten to the west and Daudmannsodden to the east.

coal mining camp in Norway (1904-1917)

land area on the northwestern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard

Hiorthhamn is an abandoned settlement located on the east side of Adventfjorden on the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway. It served as a coal mining camp from 1917 to 1921 operated by De Norske Kullfelter Spitsbergen. The settlement was named for the company's director, Fredrik Hiorth (1851–1923). Muskox were introduced in the area from Greenland in 1929, and the camp took the name Moskushamn in 1938. It reverted to its original name in 2002. It has a population of 0 people.

a Polish research station in Svalbard

area in Svalbard

nature reserve in Norway

land area on the east coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard

protected area in Norway (Naturbase code: VV00002575)