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Smeerenburg's decline began in the early to mid-1640s, as whales became scarce in the bays and sounds off Spitsbergen. We hear of it still in use by the Hoorn chamber as late as 1657. Around 1660, with the transition to processing blubber into oil on return to port and expansion into pelagic whaling,
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station here with tents made of canvas and crude, temporary ovens. In 1615, 1616, and 1618 the Dutch again occupied the site. In 1619, a 500-ton ship with timber and other materials was sent to Spitsbergen. The tents and temporary ovens were replaced with wooden structures and copper kettles "set in
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ships employed by the Danes arrived at Smeerenburg and began taking whaling gear from the Danish huts before they were driven away by the Dutch. In 1625, when the Danish-employed Basque ships arrived at their place in Smeerenburg they found that their station had been damaged, the work of the Dutch
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by Danish-employed Basque ships in 1632, the Dutch sent seven men, led by Jacob Segerszoon van der Brugge, to over-winter at Smeerenburg in 1633–34. All seven men survived, prompting another wintering by another group of seven sailors in 1634–35. All of them died, and the experiment was abandoned.
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at its centre, built in or before 1631 to ward off the Danish and other interlopers. The alleys between the buildings were cobbled with drainage gullies, allowing the men to walk dry-shod. There were seven double (and one single) ovens situated in front of the buildings. Amsterdam had three of the
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on shore, rather than on ships at sea, so the whalers needed a shore station for the try works. The image at right shows the concretised remnants of whale oil that built up around the large (ca. 2-3m diameter) copper kettles in which the blubber was rendered. Leftover blubber was used as fuel for
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Such claims have no basis in reality, as noted above. No more than fifteen ships and 400 men would have visited Smeerenburg during its peak in the 1630s. There were no shops, churches or brothels, though there was a single fort with two guns. Despite the results of archaeological excavations that
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B. A. McLeod, M. W. Brown, M. J. Moore, W. Stevens, S. H. Barkham, M. Barkham and B. N. White, Bowhead Whales, and Not Right Whales, Were the Primary Target of 16th-to 17th-Century Basque Whalers in the Western North Atlantic, Arctic, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Mar., 2008), pp. 61-75
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Prestvold, Kristin. 2001. Smeerenburg Gravneset: Europe's First Oil Adventure. Translated by Richard Wooley. . Longyearbyen, NO: Governor of Svalbard, Environmental Section. (24 pp., no ISBN, available from the gift shop of the Svalbard Museum, Longyearbyen,
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In its first year only Amsterdam and the Danes occupied Smeerenburg, the former to the east and the latter to the west. In 1619 and 1620 the Danish ships that went to Smeerenburg were sent by merchants from
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It is said that two hundred men slept or worked ashore at one time, but given the continual sunlight the men would have worked in shifts. So 200 men would have slept while a correspondent number would have
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chambers. By 1626 there were five big "huts" at Smeerenburg, and by 1633 all the chambers of the Northern Company were represented at the settlement.
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Map of the original Smeerenburg, with trade huts (red) and oil boilers (green). The names denote which city owned the relevant facilities.
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takes place in the town of "Smeerensburg", on a distant northern Scandinavian island, an intentional misspelling, according to producer
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No Man's Land: A History of Spitsbergen from Its Discovery in 1596 to the Beginning of the Scientific Exploration of the Country
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Ross, W. G. (1993). "Commercial Whaling in the North Atlantic Sector". In Burns, J. J.; Montague, J. J.; and Cowles, C. J.
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and English in the previous season. After 1625 the Danes were expelled by the Dutch, their place being occupied by the
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took place in the period 1979–81, modern authors still sometimes repeat the fabulous legends told of Smeerenburg.
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Dansk-Norsk Hvalfangst 1615–1660: En Studie over Danmark-Norges Stilling i Europæisk Merkantil Expansion
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a permanent fashion on a brick foundation, with a brick fireplace beneath and a chimney for the smoke."
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Comments made on location by Oceanwide expedition guide, 3 August 2005; confirmed by Prestvold, p. 2
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An Account of the Arctic Regions with a History and a Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery
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The site of Smeerenburg was first occupied by the Dutch in 1614, when ships from the
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whale fishery, Smeerenburg served as the centre of operations in the north. The name
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buildings and two of the double ovens, while to the west were the stations of the
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In its heyday (1630s), Smeerenburg was made up of 16–17 buildings, including a
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town". The whalers were taking the "Greenland right whale", now known as the
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Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century
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The size of Smeerenburg has been greatly exaggerated by many authors.
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and workshops, there were shops, churches, fortifications,
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in 1975, Curaçao and Dependencies was renamed to the
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Ghost town
Smeerenburg is located in Svalbard
79°43′54″N 10°59′42″E / 79.73167°N 10.99500°E / 79.73167; 10.99500
Norway
Syssel
Svalbard
Spitsbergen
Time zone
UTC+1
CET
DST


Cornelis de Man

whaling settlement
Amsterdam Island
Svalbard
bowhead whale
whaling
pelagic
Danes Island
Spitsbergen
Dutch
blubber
bowhead whale
Fram Strait
try pots
Amsterdam
Noordsche Compagnie

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