Difference between revisions 52340 and 52905 on svwikivoyage[[Image:SvalbardView.jpg|thumb|view in june]] '''Svalbard''' [http://www.svalbard.net/index.asp?Lang=UK] (Russian: Шпицберген, ''Shpitsbergen'' or грумант, ''Grumant'') is a group of islands located between the [[Islands of the Arctic Ocean|Arctic Ocean]], Barents Sea, Greenland Sea, and the Norwegian Sea. The islands are directly North of (and since 1920 an integrated part of) [[Norway]]. [[Image:SvalbardBoatTour.jpg|thumb|boat tour]] (contracted; show full)The islands can be divided into two groups: the Spitsbergen group of '''Barentsøya''', '''Edgeøya''', '''Nordaustlandet''' and '''Prins Karls Forland''', and the more remote islands of '''Bjørnøya''', '''Hopen''', '''Kong Karls Land''' and '''Kvitøya'''. [[Image:Grumant Svalbard.jpg|thumb|House in abandoned Grumant mine]] ==Om== Svalbard is the northernmost tip of Europe and, a few military bases aside, its settlements are the northernmost permanently inhabited spots on the planet. Located between the 76° and 81° parallels, they are far more northerly than any part of Alaska and all but a few of Canada's Arctic islands. In fact, they would be permanently locked in by ice if not for the moderating influence of the Gulf Stream, and it is this comparative war(contracted; show full)[[it:Svalbard]] [[ja:スヴァールバル]] [[nl:Svalbard]] [[sv:Svalbard]] [[WikiPedia:Svalbard]] [[Dmoz:Europe/Svalbard and Jan Mayen/Svalbard/]] All content in the above text box is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license Version 4 and was originally sourced from https://sv.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=52905.
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