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Svalbard
| Location |
Between Arctic Ocean, Greenland Sea, Barents Sea,
Norwegian Sea |
| Latitude and longitude |
78 00 N, 20 00 E |
| Sovereignty |
Norway |
| Political status notes |
Also known as Spitzbergen |
| Population |
2,416 |
| Census notes |
est. July 2000 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
62,049 |
| Capital |
Longyearbyen |
Fundamental legal documents online
|
| Traktat
mellem Norge, Amerikas Forente Stater, Danmark, Frankrike, Italia,
Japan, Nederlandene, Storbritannia og Irland og de britiske oversjøiske
besiddelser og Sverige angående Spitsbergen (the Svalbard
Treaty) (1920) (Norwegian), from the
Lovdata Foundation |
| Lov
om Svalbard (law relating to Spitzbergen) (Norwegian), from the
Lovdata Foundation |
Other legal documents online
|
| Act
of 15 June 2001 No.79 relating to the protection of the environment
(unofficial), from the Norway Ministry of the Environment |
| Bergverksordning
for Svalbard (Mining Regulations) (Norwegian), from the Lovdata
Foundation |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Dependencies
and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and
Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of
State, Washington, D.C. |
| The
Governor of Svalbard |
| Scott Polar Research Institute, Summary
of the Arctic archipelagos and islands, off Eurasia |
| Svalbard |
| Svalbard,
from the Norwegian Polar Institute (select "Svalbard" from
the menu on the left) |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
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