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- Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
- The main island is Spitsbergen; other islands
- include North East Land, Edge Island, Barents
- Island, and Prince Charles Foreland. area
- 62,000 sq km/23,938 sq mi towns Long Year
- City on Spitsbergen features weather and
- research stations. Wildlife includes walrus
- and polar bear; fossil palms show that it was
- in the tropics 40 million years ago. products
- coal, phosphates, asbestos, iron ore, and
- galena -- all mined by the USSR and Norway
- population (1982) 4,000; 62% Russian, 36%
- Norwegian history under the Svalbard Treaty
- 1925, Norway has sovereignty, but allows free
- scientific and economic access to others.
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