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Spitzbergen

noun
1.
Islands in the Svalbard archipelago to the east of northern Greenland; belonging to Norway.  Synonym: Spitsbergen.






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"Spitzbergen" Quotes from Famous Books



... the moving cause. Here, as elsewhere, Agassiz recognized at once the comprehensive scope of the phenomena. The whole history reconstructed itself in his mind, to the time when a sheet of ice clothed the land, reaching the Atlantic sea-board, as it now does the coast of Spitzbergen and the Arctic shores. ...
— Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence • Louis Agassiz

... vessels, commanded by Arthur Ket and Charles Jackman, sailed for the Arctic Ocean; but they never got beyond the Kara Sea. The Dutch succeeded no better, none of the voyages undertaken by Barents and others between 1594 and 1597 reaching farther than the Spitzbergen and Novaya Zembla waters. Nor were these limits exceeded by Hendrick Hudson in 1608. This was the last attempt made by the navigators of West Europe; but the Russian traders and fishers of the White Sea were familiar with the routes to ...
— Russia - As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Various



Words linked to "Spitzbergen" :   Svalbard, island



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