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English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century
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42:archipelago. The bay is named after SS
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859:Amundsen-Nobile Climate Change Tower
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58:, a historical whaling station on
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240:Place Names of Svalbard Database
1025:2011 Svalbard polar bear attack
973:Ny-Ålesund Airport, Hamnerabben
968:Barentsburg Heliport, Heerodden
210:Conway, William Martin (1906).
201:Conway, William Martin (1904).
136:fatal attempt to reach the pole
370:Longyearbyen Community Council
62:about 2 km to the north.
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126:S.A. Andrée built a balloon
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234:. London; Hakluyt Society.
178:Dalgård (1962), p. 258-59.
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230:White, Adam, ed. (1855).
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16:Bay in Svalbard, Norway
221:Dalgård, Sune (1962).
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988:Svalbard Rocket Range
792:Northwest Spitsbergen
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568:Bear Island
524:Environment
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449:Advent City
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394:Settlements
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36:Spitsbergen
1072:Categories
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894:Seed Vault
823:Arktikugol
754:Orvin Land
647:Land areas
563:Barentsøya
509:Virgohamna
489:Lægerneset
474:Hiorthhamn
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416:Ny-Ålesund
347:In fiction
195:References
132:North Pole
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1002:Education
960:Transport
833:Kings Bay
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332:Languages
315:Geography
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92:Friesland
28:Virgo Bay
1093:Danskøya
847:Research
828:Bjørnøen
618:Sjuøyane
593:Kongsøya
464:Gåshamna
459:Finneset
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357:Politics
300:Cannabis
276:Svalbard
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283:General
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