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Bear Island (Svalbard), the Glossary

Bear Island (Bjørnøya) is the southernmost island of the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago.^[1]

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Aftenposten

Aftenposten (stylized as i in the masthead) is Norway's largest printed newspaper by circulation.

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Alfredfjellet

Alfredfjellet is a mountain at the island of Bjørnøya of the Svalbard archipelago, Norway.

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Alistair MacLean

Alistair Stuart MacLean (Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories.

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Antarcticfjellet

Antarcticfjellet is a mountain range at the island of Bjørnøya of the Svalbard archipelago, Norway.

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Arctic char

The Arctic char or Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) is a cold-water fish in the family Salmonidae, native to alpine lakes, as well as Arctic and subarctic coastal waters in the Holarctic.

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Arctic convoys of World War II

The Arctic convoys of World War II were oceangoing convoys which sailed from the United Kingdom, Iceland, and North America to northern ports in the Soviet Union – primarily Arkhangelsk (Archangel) and Murmansk in Russia.

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Arctic fox

The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small species of fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and common throughout the Arctic tundra biome.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Barents Sea

The Barents Sea (also; Barentshavet,; Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.

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Barnacle goose

The barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) is a species of goose that belongs to the genus Branta of black geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species.

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Battle of the Barents Sea

The Battle of the Barents Sea was a World War II naval engagement on 31 December 1942 between warships of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) and British ships escorting convoy JW 51B to Kola Inlet in the USSR.

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Bear Island (film)

Bear Island is a 1979 thriller film based on Alistair MacLean's 1971 novel of the same name.

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Bear Island (novel)

Bear Island is a thriller novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean.

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Bearded seal

The bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), also called the square flipper seal, is a medium-sized pinniped that is found in and near to the Arctic Ocean.

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Bellona Foundation

The Bellona Foundation is an international environmental NGO headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with branches in Europe and North America.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year.

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BirdLife International

BirdLife International is a global partnership of non-governmental organizations that strives to conserve birds and their habitats.

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Bjørnøen

Bjørnøen AS is a Norwegian government enterprise that owns all land and some heritage buildings on the uninhabited overseas territory of Bjørnøya (Bear Island).

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Black guillemot

The black guillemot or tystie (Cepphus grylle) is a medium-sized seabird of the Alcidae family, native throughout northern Atlantic coasts and eastern North American coasts.

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Black-legged kittiwake

The black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae.

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Call sign

In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique identifier for a transmitter station.

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Celsius

The degree Celsius is the unit of temperature on the Celsius temperature scale "Celsius temperature scale, also called centigrade temperature scale, scale based on 0 ° for the melting point of water and 100 ° for the boiling point of water at 1 atm pressure." (originally known as the centigrade scale outside Sweden), one of two temperature scales used in the International System of Units (SI), the other being the closely related Kelvin scale.

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Charles Sutherland Elton

Charles Sutherland Elton (29 March 1900 – 1 May 1991) was an English zoologist and animal ecologist.

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Cochlearia

Cochlearia (scurvy-grass or spoonwort) is a genus of about 30 species of annual and perennial herbs in the family Brassicaceae.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Common murre

The common murre, also called the common guillemot or foolish guillemot, (Uria aalge) is a large auk.

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Continental shelf

A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea.

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Convoy PQ 17

Convoy PQ 17 was the code name for an Allied Arctic convoy during the Second World War.

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COVID-19 pandemic in Svalbard

The COVID-19 pandemic in Svalbard is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

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Czesław Centkiewicz

Czesław Jacek Centkiewicz (October 18, 1904 – July 10, 1996) was a Polish engineer, explorer, writer and journalist.

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Drift ice

Drift ice, also called brash ice, is sea ice that is not attached to the shoreline or any other fixed object (shoals, grounded icebergs, etc.).Leppäranta, M. 2011.

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DX-pedition

A DX-pedition is an expedition to what is considered an exotic place by amateur radio operators and DX listeners, typically because of its remoteness, access restrictions, or simply because there are very few radio amateurs active from that place.

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Edgeøya

Edgeøya, anglicised as Edge Island, is a Norwegian island located in southeast of the Svalbard archipelago; with an area of, it is the third-largest island in this archipelago. Bear Island (Svalbard) and Edgeøya are islands of Svalbard.

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Fast ice

Fast ice (also called land-fast ice, landfast ice, and shore-fast ice) is sea ice that is "fastened" to the coastline, to the sea floor along shoals, or to grounded icebergs.

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Food chain

A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web, often starting with an autotroph (such as grass or algae), also called a producer, and typically ending at an apex predator (such as grizzly bears or killer whales), detritivore (such as earthworms and woodlice), or decomposer (such as fungi or bacteria).

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Food web

A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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Glaucous gull

The glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus) is a large gull, the second-largest gull in the world.

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Governor of Svalbard

The governor of Svalbard (Sysselmesteren på Svalbard) represents the Norwegian government in exercising its sovereignty over the Svalbard archipelago (Spitsbergen).

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Greenland Sea

The Greenland Sea is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south.

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Hambergfjellet

Hambergfjellet is a mountain at the island of Bjørnøya of the Svalbard archipelago, Norway.

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High frequency

High frequency (HF) is the ITU designation for the band of radio waves with frequency between 3 and 30 megahertz (MHz).

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Hydrographic survey

Hydrographic survey is the science of measurement and description of features which affect maritime navigation, marine construction, dredging, offshore wind farms, offshore oil exploration and drilling and related activities.

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Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

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Ingøy

Ingøy or Inga is a small fishing village on the island of Ingøya in Måsøy Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway.

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International Polar Year

The International Polar Years (IPY) are collaborative, international efforts with intensive research focus on the polar regions.

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Jacob van Heemskerck

Jacob van Heemskerck (3 March 1567 – 25 April 1607) was a Dutch explorer and naval admiral.

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Karl Dönitz

Karl Dönitz (sometimes spelled Doenitz;; 16 September 189124 December 1980) was a German admiral who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as head of state in May 1945, holding the position until the dissolution of the Flensburg Government following Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allies days later.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kings Bay (company)

Kings Bay AS is a government enterprise owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry that operates the entire settlement of Ny-Ålesund on Svalbard.

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Kriegsmarine

The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.

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Little auk

The little auk or dovekie (Alle alle) is a small auk, the only member of the genus Alle.

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Long-tailed duck

The long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis) or coween, formerly known as the oldsquaw, is a medium-sized sea duck that breeds in the tundra and taiga regions of the arctic and winters along the northern coastlines of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Midnight sun

Midnight sun, also known as polar day, is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the Sun remains visible at the local midnight.

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Ministry of Justice and Public Security

The Royal Ministry of Justice and Public Security (Det kongelige justis- og beredskapsdepartement) is a Norwegian government ministry that oversees justice, the police, and domestic intelligence.

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Miseryfjellet

Miseryfjellet (Misery Mountain), at, is the tallest peak on Bear Island (Bjørnøya), a Norwegian island in the Barents Sea.

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Morse code

Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs.

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Moss

Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto.

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Muscovy Company

The Muscovy Company (also called the Russia Company or the Muscovy Trading Company; Moskovskaya kompaniya) was an English trading company chartered in 1555. It was the first major chartered joint-stock company, the precursor of the type of business that would soon flourish in England and finance its exploration of the world.

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Nature reserve

A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, funga, or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for purposes of conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.

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Non-directional beacon

A non-directional beacon (NDB) or non-directional radio beacon is a radio beacon which does not include directional information.

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North Atlantic Current

The North Atlantic Current (NAC), also known as North Atlantic Drift and North Atlantic Sea Movement, is a powerful warm western boundary current within the Atlantic Ocean that extends the Gulf Stream northeastward.

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North Cape (Norway)

North Cape (Nordkapp; Davvenjárga) is a cape on the northern coast of the island of Magerøya in Northern Norway.

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Northern fulmar

The northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), fulmar, or Arctic fulmar is a highly abundant seabird found primarily in subarctic regions of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Norwegian Coast Guard

The Norwegian Coast Guard (Kystvakten) is a maritime military force which is part of the Royal Norwegian Navy.

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The Norwegian Mapping Authority (NMA) (italic) is Norway's national mapping agency, dealing with land surveying, geodesy, hydrographic surveying, cadastre and cartography.

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Norwegian Meteorological Institute

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute (Meteorologisk institutt), also known internationally as MET Norway, is Norway's national meteorological institute.

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Norwegian Polar Institute

The Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI; Norsk Polarinstitutt) is Norway's central governmental institution for scientific research, mapping and environmental monitoring in the Arctic and the Antarctic.

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Norwegian Sea

The Norwegian Sea (Norskehavet; Noregshaf; Norskahavið) is a marginal sea, grouped with either the Atlantic Ocean or the Arctic Ocean, northwest of Norway between the North Sea and the Greenland Sea, adjoining the Barents Sea to the northeast.

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Nuclear submarine

A nuclear submarine is a submarine powered by a nuclear reactor, but not necessarily nuclear-armed.

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Ny-Ålesund

Ny-Ålesund ("New Ålesund") is a small town in Oscar II Land on the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway.

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Operation Haudegen

Operation Haudegen (Unternehmen Haudegen) was the name of a German operation during the Second World War to establish meteorological stations on the Svalbard archipelago in Norway.

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Ornithology

Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds.

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Permafrost

Permafrost is soil or underwater sediment which continuously remains below for two years or more: the oldest permafrost had been continuously frozen for around 700,000 years.

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Petroleum reservoir

A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations.

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The pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) is a goose which breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, and recently Novaya Zemlya.

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Pinniped

Pinnipeds (pronounced), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals.

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Polar bear

The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas.

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Polar climate

The polar climate regions are characterized by a lack of warm summers but with varying winters.

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Polar night

Polar night is a phenomenon in the northernmost and southernmost regions of Earth where night lasts for more than 24 hours.

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Polychlorinated biphenyl

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are highly carcinogenic chemical compounds, formerly used in industrial and consumer products, whose production was banned in the United States by the Toxic Substances Control Act in 1976 and internationally by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.

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Purple sandpiper

The purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima) is a small shorebird in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae.

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Ramsar Convention

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of Ramsar sites (wetlands).

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Red phalarope

The red phalarope or grey phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius) is a small wader.

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Ringed seal

The ringed seal (Pusa hispida) is an earless seal inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.

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Rock ptarmigan

The rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) is a medium-sized game bird in the grouse family.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Sailor

A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship.

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Seasonal lag

Seasonal lag is the phenomenon whereby the date of maximum average air temperature at a geographical location on a planet is delayed until some time after the date of maximum daylight (i.e. the summer solstice).

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Snøhvit

Snøhvit (Snow White) is the name of a natural gas field in the Norwegian Sea, situated northwest of Hammerfest, Norway.

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Snow bunting

The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) is a passerine bird in the family Calcariidae.

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Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets

The K-278 Komsomolets was the Project-685 Plavnik (Russian: проект-685 плавник, meaning "fin", also known by her NATO reporting name of "Mike"-class), nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Soviet Navy; the only submarine of her design class.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Spitsbergen

Spitsbergen (formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian: Vest Spitsbergen or Vestspitsbergen, also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway. Bear Island (Svalbard) and Spitsbergen are 1590s in the Dutch Empire and islands of Svalbard.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Island_(Svalbard)

Also known as Bear Island (Norway), Bear Island (Svalbard, Norway), Bear Island, Norway, Bjørnøya (Svalbard, Norway), Bjørnøya Nature Reserve.

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Bear Island (Svalbard), the Glossary

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See also

1590s in the Dutch Empire

Important Bird Areas of Svalbard

Islands of the Barents Sea

Nature reserves in Svalbard

References