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The University Centre in Svalbard in Longyearbyen offers undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate courses to 350 students in various arctic sciences, particularly biology, geology, and geophysics. Courses are provided to supplement studies at mainland universities; there are no tuition fees and courses are held in English, with Norwegian and ...
Both Svalbard and Jan Mayen consist almost entirely of Arctic wilderness, such as at Bellsund in Svalbard. Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic about midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The group of islands range from 74° to 81° north latitude, and from 10° to 35° east longitude.
The lower parts of the town lie along the southwestern shore of the bay of Adventfjorden, a 7-by-4-kilometer (4 + 1 ⁄ 2 by 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi) branch of Isfjorden. [13] Longyearbyen is on the Nordenskiöld Land peninsula of Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago. [5] Across the bay lie the ghost towns of Advent City [14] and ...
Jan Mayen (Urban East Norwegian: [jɑn ˈmɑ̀ɪən]) [1] is a Norwegian volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean with no permanent population. It is 55 km (34 mi) long (southwest-northeast) and 373 km 2 (144 sq mi) in area, partly covered by glaciers (an area of 114.2 km 2 (44.1 sq mi) around the Beerenberg volcano).
An enlargeable basic map of Svalbard. Pronunciation: English: / ˈ s v ɑː l b ɑːr / SVAHL-bar, [2] Urban East Norwegian: [ˈsvɑ̂ːɫbɑr] Common English country name: Svalbard; Official English country name: Svalbard of the Kingdom of Norway; Common endonym(s): Official endonym(s): Adjectival(s): Demonym(s): Etymology: Name of Svalbard
As defined by the UNCLOS, states have ten years from the date of ratification to make claims to an extended continental shelf.They must present to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, a UN body, geological evidence that their shelf effectively extends beyond the 200 nautical miles limit but no more than an additional 150 nautical miles or 100 nautical miles from the 2500 ...
The University Centre in Svalbard in Longyearbyen offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses to 350 students in various arctic sciences, particularly biology, geology and geophysics. Courses are provided to supplement studies at the mainland universities; there are no tuition fees and courses are held in English, with Norwegian and ...
Edgeøya (Norwegian: [ˈɛdʒˌœ͡ʏɑ]), anglicised as Edge Island, is a Norwegian island located in southeast of the Svalbard archipelago; with an area of 5,073 square kilometres (1,960 sq mi), it is the third-largest island in this archipelago. [1]