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Spitzbergen

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Noun1.SpitzbergenSpitzbergen - islands in the Svalbard archipelago to the east of northern Greenland; belonging to Norway
Spitsbergen
Svalbard - a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean
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, consumed by every Low Dutch harpooneer in that ancient Greenland and Spitzbergen whale fishery.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
, entitled A Whaling Voyage to Spitzbergen in the ship Jonas in the Whale, Peter Peterson of Friesland, master.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with "the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,--that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.
Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
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