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dc.contributor.authorChekin, Leonid S.
dc.contributor.authorRogatchevski, Andrei
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-09T08:34:25Z
dc.date.available2020-06-09T08:34:25Z
dc.date.issued2020-02-01
dc.description.abstractSvalbard, or “cool edge” in Old Norse, is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. It has no indigenous population and some 60% of its landmass is covered by ice. Yet its rich wildlife and mineral resources, as well as spectacular sights, have been attracting a great deal of commercial interest ever since Willem Barentsz discovered the archipelago in 1596 and named it Spitsbergen (“peaked mountains”). Initially a whale hunting base and subsequently a mining ground, a tourist destination and an Arctic research centre, Svalbard could have belonged, among others, to the Dutch, the British and the Russians (who claim to have visited it before Barentsz) – but ended up under Norwegian jurisdiction, upon an international approval of the so-called Svalbard Treaty.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRogatchevski A, Chekin. ‘Introducing Svalbard Studies’. Nordlit. 2020:1-3en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1796158
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7557/13.4990
dc.identifier.issn0809-1668
dc.identifier.issn1503-2086
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/18494
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSeptentrio Academic Publishingen_US
dc.relation.journalNordlit
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200en_US
dc.titleIntroducing Svalbard Studiesen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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