Postcards and Images from SVALBARD - SPITSBERGEN

















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Broeggerhalvoya (Brogger Peninsula) Ny-Alesund


The Three Crowns, Kings Bay




















Arctic vixen, Svalbard.


Stone ridges on Kvadehuksletta, a plain located on the outermost part of the peninsula of Brøggerhalvøya on the west coast of the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard.
      It takes its name after Kvadehuken, the outermost part of the peninsula. It is a Norwegianization of the Dutch "Quade hoek", which means bad corner.


























Spitsbergen Mines Coal Again, National Geographic July 1948


Spitsbergen Mines Coal Again, National Geographic July 1948


Spitsbergen Mines Coal Again, National Geographic July 1948


Spitsbergen Mines Coal Again, National Geographic July 1948


Longyearbyen - God Jul - Merry Christmas


Longyearbyen


Government buildings, Longyearbyen, card posted 1963.


Longyearbyen 1964 Readers Digest





Longyearbyen, postcard purchased August 1960 courtesy J. K. Lansing





Longyearbyen, card printed 2002


Longyearbyen, courtesy National Geographic 2012


Longyearbyen 1985


Longyearbyen 1993


Longyearbyen 1986


Longyearbyen with Adventdalen in the background 1990


Longyearbyen



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Longyearbyen (before 1968)





Longyearbyen - "Merry Christmas"








Longyearbyen: Haugen - Kirken - Sverdrupbyen/Nyben - Forsamlingshuset - Olav V's gruve-kullbat.



Nyben (Longyearbyen)


Nyben (Longyearbyen)


Nyben (Longyearbyen) 1957








Longyearbyen








      Skjæringa is a ridge just north of the center of Longyearbyen on Svalbard . Here is Governor farm from 1955 and the new premises of the Governor. Furthermore, the Public Construction premises and the now defunct Taubanesentralen here, as well as the premises and the main antenna station to Telenor Svalbard AS .
      The original creation of Skjæringa were Svalbard radio , which in 1930 was moved to Longyearbyen from Green Harbour further out in the Fjord . Svalbard radio was burned during World War II , but rebuilt and now houses the headquarters of Telenor Svalbard.

















Arctic Science Center of the University Center on Svalbard


Arctic Technology branch of the University Center on Svalbard








Longyearbyen


Longyearbyen, December


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Longyearbyen


Longyearbyen


Longyearbyen


Longyearbyen


Longyearbyen


Longyearbyen 1993


Longyearbyen Gruve (mine)


Gruve (mine)


Adventdalen Gruve 6


Adventdalen Gruve 5


Adventdalen Gruve 6


Ice Fjord - Isfjord Radio


10 km east of Longyearbyen 2000



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Barentsburg


Barentsburg


Barentsburg

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Pyramiden








Ny Alesund


Ny Alesund


Ny Alesund


Ny Alesund


Ny Alesund by moonlight




Sveagruva




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