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The Søre Fagerfjord property, the last known private property in Svalbard, located between Norway and the North Pole, was put on the market in May for €300 million ($322 million).
Some parts of the public real estate are managed by other agencies, including railways, the military, and healthcare facilities. Part of the government portfolio, which is subject to competition, is managed by the limited company Entra Eiendom , which was demerged from the Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property in 2000.
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Kings Bay AS is a government enterprise owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry that operates the entire settlement of Ny-Ålesund on Svalbard. The settlement, the most northerly civilian settlement in the world , serves research staff.
The act also establishes rules for real estate and environmental protection. [1] The act was passed as a response to the Spitsbergen Treaty of 9 February 1920, which established Norwegian sovereignty of Svalbard, but limited the archipelago to a free economic zone and demilitarized zone.
Entra Eiendom: manages the commercial portfolio of government real estate; Flytoget: operates the Airport Express Train between Oslo and Oslo Airport, Gardermoen; Innovation Norway (Innovasjon Norge): provides help and funding for start-up companies; Kings Bay: operates research facility at Ny-Ålesund on Svalbard
The northern point of Rossøya, at 80° 49′ 44.41″ North, is the northernmost point in Svalbard, and thereby also in the Kingdom of Norway. [1] The distance to the North Pole is 1024.3 kilometers (637 mi / 553 nm), to Nordkapp on the Norwegian mainland 1084 km and to Pysen, off the southern tip of mainland Norway, 2580 km.
Sjuøyane (English: Seven Islands) is the northernmost part of the Svalbard archipelago north of mainland Norway, and some 20 km north of the eastern major island Nordaustlandet. The islands are the northernmost landmass reachable by normal means, being 1024.3 kilometers (637 mi / 553 nm) south of the North Pole .