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Longyearbyen (lông`yērbü'ən), town and administrative center of Svalbard, on Isfjorden, Spitsbergen island. It is a coal-mining settlement, founded (1905) by an American company and named after the American miner J. M. Longyear. Its coal mines were transferred to a Norwegian company in 1916. It was destroyed (Sept., 1943) by German battleships but was quickly rebuilt. The Svalbard International Seed Vault, a seed bank designed as a global backup storage facility, is under construction inside a mountain near the town. Longyearbyen a village on Spitsbergen island, administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago: coal-mining How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A group of islands, it is the most northern regularly inhabited place in the world, and is run by the Norwegians from Longyearbyen, a town named not, as most suppose, after the strange annual procession from total night, when the sun never rises, to complete daylight, when it shines from the north at midnight. The captain on another flight en route for Longyearbyen called for a minute of silence in memory of the crash victims. DHL even ships packages to some of Santa's nearest neighbors in the tiny villages of Longyearbyen, Norway, and Resolute Bay, Canada -- two of the closest inhabited communities to the North Pole. |
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