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Definitions of spitsbergen in various dictionaries:
noun - islands in the Svalbard archipelago to the east of northern Greenland
An island of Norway in Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean east of northern Greenland.
SPITSBERGEN - Spitsbergen (formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian: Vest Spitsbergen or Vestspitsbergen, also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest a...
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| Large Norwegian island |
| Norwegian Arctic island |
| Group of islands - being specific, it's north of Norwegian port |
| Island in Svalbard archipelago, as named in a 1920 treaty |
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| Jun 3 2012 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
| Oct 5 2009 The Times - Concise |
| Nov 1 2008 The Times - Concise |
| Apr 26 2003 The Times - Cryptic |
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Spitsbergen (formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian: Vest Spitsbergen or Vestspitsbergen, also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway. Constituting the westernmost bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea, and the Greenland Sea. Spitsbergen covers an area of 37,673 km2 (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 Russian mining community of Barentsburg, the research community of Ny-Ålesund, and the mining outpost of Sveagruva. Spitsbergen was covered in 21,977 km2 (8,485 sq mi) of ice in 1999, which was approximately 58.5% of the island's total area. * The island was first used as a whaling base in the 17th and 18th centuries, after which it was abandoned. Coal mining started at the end of the 19th century, and se |