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Setting off from Oden in small boat Hugin.

Setting off from Oden in small boat Hugin.
Setting off from Oden in small boat Hugin.
Setting off from Oden in small boat Hugin.
Setting off from Oden in small boat Hugin.
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Linder, Christopher
Setting off from Oden in small boat Hugin.
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09/11/2007
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Down a gangway from Oden, a jump into a small boat, and a few minutes' ride away was Longyearbyen, named after John Longyear, the U.S. owner of the first coal mine on Svalbard, established in 1906. Svalbard was first noted in Icelandic texts in 1194 but was discovered officially in 1596 by Willem Barentsz (for whom the nearby Barents Sea is named), a Dutch voyager looking for a northwest passage to China. He named the whole archipelago Spitsbergen ("sharp mountains"), but now only one island retains that name. Whalers from many nations began to come to the islands in the 1600s. Russians came to hunt and trap in the 1700s. Norwegians came to do the same in the 1800s. Since 1920, Norway has had sovereignty over Svalbard, which means "cold coast" in Norwegian.
Photo by Chris Linder
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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