Spitsbergen
Sign in to saveSpitsbergen (; 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.
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Spitsbergen is the largest and only permanently inhabited island in the Svalbard archipelago, located in the Arctic Ocean north of Norway. As a significant Arctic settlement, it represents human presence in one of Earth's most remote and extreme environments.
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- Map of the Svalbard archipelago, with Spitsbergen emphasized in solid red. Inset shows the islands' place in Northern Europe.
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- Arctic Ocean
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17 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Early claims
- Danish expansion
- Spitsbergen Treaty
- World War II
- Postwar
- Government
- Population
- Economy
- Transport
- Climate
- Nature
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
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.
Constituting the westernmost bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland Sea. Spitsbergen covers an area of , 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. Spitsbergen was covered in of ice in 1999, which was approximately 58.5% of the island's total area.