Longyearbyen
- Title
- Longyearbyen
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- Vegard Sætrenes
- Location
- (310,149) on Svalbard and Jan Mayen map below
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- Latitude
- 78.216498
- Longitude
- 15.615657
78.216498;15.615657
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Longyearbyen is the administrative centre of Svalbard and is located on Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago.
The settlement was founded in 1906 by John Munroe Longyear, main owner of the Arctic Coal Company of Boston. "Byen" is Norwegian for "the town".
In the foreground you can see some Canada Geese.
Svalbard, June 2007
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