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Paperback, [EAN: 9781156801598], Books LLC, English, English, English, Books LLC, Book, Books LLC, Books LLC, Chapters: Longyearbyen, Smeerenburg, Barentsburg, Ny-Ålesund, Grumant, Pyramiden, Sveagruva. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Longyearbyen is the largest settlement and the administrative centre of Svalbard. It is located on the western coast of Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago, on the southern side on Adventfjorden (English: the Advent fjord), which continues inland with Adventdalen (English: the Advent valley). The Governor of Svalbard and his administration reside in Longyearbyen. Longyearbyen has approximately 2,060 inhabitants (at the end of 2007). It is one of the world's northernmost towns, and the most northerly town with a population of over 1,000. Svalbard was discovered in 1596 by the Dutch navigator Willem Barentsz; since the 1600s people of different nationalities have carried out various activities on Svalbard, e.g. hunting, trapping, research, mining and tourism. In the first half of the seventeenth century the right to catch whales in Svalbard was in dispute between several European nations, with conflicts occasionally resulting in bloodshed. Denmark-Norway and England both claimed sovereignty over the region; but as neither permanently settled the region, it remained a terra nullius. At the beginning of the 20th century, the development of the mining industry created the need for change: it was important to have sole ownership of land and mineral deposits, and there was a need for legislation and courts to settle disputes, such as those between mining companies and their workers. Only with the Versailles treaty, ending the First World War, was an agreement reached in the form of the Spitsbergen Treaty, signed February 9, 1920. This made Svalbard part of the kingdom of Norway, but allowed citizens of o...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=337405, 1000, Subjects, 1, Arts & Photography, 2, Biographies & Memoirs, 3, Business & Investing, 4, Children's Books, 4366, Comics & Graphic Novels, 5, Computers & Internet, 6, Cooking, Food & Wine, 86, Entertainment, 301889, Gay & Lesbian, 10, Health, Mind & Body, 9, History, 48, Home & Garden, 10777, Law, 17, Literature & Fiction, 13996, Medicine, 18, Mystery & Thrillers, 53, Nonfiction, 290060, Outdoors & Nature, 20, Parenting & Families, 173507, Professional & Technical, 21, Reference, 22, Religion & Spirituality, 23, Romance, 75, Science, 25, Science Fiction & Fantasy, 26, Sports, 28, Teens, 27, Travel, 283155, Books<

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