Spits·ber·gen

(spĭts′bûr′gən)

An island of Norway in Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean east of northern Greenland. Discovered by Willem Barents in 1596, the island became part of Norway in 1925.

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Spitsbergen

(ˈspɪtsˌbɜːɡən)

(Placename) another name for Svalbard

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Spits•ber•gen

(ˈspɪtsˌbɜr gən)

n.

a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway: a major part of Svalbard. 23,641 sq. mi. (61,229 sq. km).

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

Spitsbergen - islands in the Svalbard archipelago to the east of northern Greenland; belonging to Norway

Spitzbergen

Svalbard - a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean

Translations

Spitsbergen

n → Spitzbergen nt

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Hapag-Lloyd Cruises said its ship was docked at Spitsbergen, the largest island on Norway's Svalbard archipelago, on Saturday when the bear attacked a guard hired to go on shore before passengers to ensure there aren't any polar bears in the area.

Cruise line faces backlash over shooting of polar bear

Worker Malin Stark at Isfjord Radio Adventure Hotel - on Spitsbergen island, north of Norway - spotted a large furry head poking out of a window in a storage room.

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Highlights will include sailing the Great Barrier Reef and New Year's Eve at Sydney Harbour Bridge, island-hopping in Indonesia, squeezing through the Corinth Canal and excursions to African game parks and Spitsbergen's eerie abandoned mining towns - plus three mystery cruises, where only the Captain knows where the ship is going!

GET ON BOARD

Only 30km of tarmac connects the far-flung Arctic community of Longyearbyen with the rest of the world, living year-round at 78-degrees north in the Svalbard archipelago and, as I embark on a winter adventure across main island Spitsbergen, I've quite literally come to the end of the road.

The ULTIMATE Arctic adventure; Motoring across frozen desert and camping on ice, SARAH MARSHALL ventures into the deep freeze

Only 30km of tarmac connects the far-flung Arctic community of Longyearbyen, living year-round at 78-degrees north in the Svalbard archipelago, and as I embark on a winter adventure across main island Spitsbergen, I've quite literally come to the end of the road.

The ULTIMATE Arctic adventure; MOTORING ACROSS FROZEN DESERT AND CAMPING ON ICE, SARAH MARSHALL VENTURES INTO THE DEEP FREEZE

Its wider range is the east Atlantic from France, to Spitsbergen Island, Russia, and corresponding latitudes in the western Atlantic.

UK shark lives up to 400 years; NATURE

The Historical Difficulty with Spitsbergen's Common Administration: Contested Claims C.

'A unique international problem': the Svalbard Treaty, equal enjoyment, and terra nullius: lessons of territorial temptation from history

MORNING Wake on a classic tall ship, sailing within the beautiful wilderness of Spitsbergen, 600 miles from the North Pole.

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Traveling in a former sealing ship, the Terningen, they camped on Bjornoya (Bear Island), because it had an "enormous population of sea-birds, especially Guillemots," on 13-23 June 1921; on Prins Karls Forland, off the west coast of Spitsbergen north of Isfjord, on 30 June-10 July; and near the great Nordenskjold Glacier at the head of Klaas-Billen Bay on 19 July-16 August.

Charles Elton's accounts of expeditions from Oxford to the Arctic in the 1920s

SKY Atlantic's highly-acclaimed psychological thriller, Fortitude - set in Pyramiden, Spitsbergen, the fictional Arctic settlement of Fortitude - has been helping to 'drive sales North' at Fred.

Fortitude hit with tourists