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	Svalbard travel guide - Wikitravel
		Svalbard [1] (Russian: Grumant) also known as Spitsbergen, is a group of islands between the Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Greenland Sea, and the Norwegian Sea.
		Svalbard is the northernmost tip of Europe and its settlements are the northernmost permanently inhabited spots on the planet.
		Svalbard is a popular staging point (at least in relative terms) for launching expeditions to the North Pole.
	wikitravel.org /en/Svalbard (2012 words)

	UD - Government Budget for 2007 — foreign policy priorities
		The Government is therefore increasing the total allocation for a cohesive High North policy by approximately NOK 274 million, NOK 30 million of which is for continuing measures implemented in 2006.
		The Government’s aim is that Norway should be at the forefront in terms of knowledge and expertise on the High North.
		In the Government’s view, UNRWA is helping to stabilise the situation in the Middle East through its efforts to improve the living conditions of a large ethnic group in the region.
	www.odin.dep.no /ud/english/news/news/032171-070891/dok-bn.html (1173 words)

	Odin - Svalbard -- "The land of the cold coasts" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Studies undertaken on Svalbard indicate that the polar bears in the Svalbard area belong to a larger stock which roams the Arctic regions from East Greenland, and eastwards past Svalbard to the Russian islands.
		Longyearbyen, the administrative capital of Svalbard, was established by the Arctic Coal Co. in 1906.
		The Svalbard Act of 1925 establishes that the island group is a part of the Kingdom of Norway.
	odin.dep.no /odin/engelsk/norway/history/032005-990455/index-dok000-b-n-a.html (3087 words)

	A Geographical-Historical Outline of Svalbard
		Svalbard includes all landmasses between 74 and 81 degrees North and between 10 and 35 degrees East, including the sea within a territorial boundary 4 nautical miles from land.
		Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, about midway between Norway and the North Pole.
		Svalbard falls within the zone of continuous permafrost and periglacial and permafrost-related terrain features are widespread in areas not covered by glaciers.
	www.unis.no /RESEARCH/GEOLOGY/Geo_research/Ole/SvalbardOutline.htm (6362 words)

	Svalbard: Barents Sea
		Svalbard is located in Northern Europe, islands between the Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Greenland Sea, and Norwegian Sea, north of Norway.
		With effect from 1 January 1981, the central government administration assumed responsibility for running the hospital in Longyearbyen and its ancillary functions, in return for which Store Norske and its employees were to pay national insurance contributions along the same lines as other employers and employees.
		In Report No. 40 (1985-86) to the Storting concerning Svalbard, it was established that Longyearbyen Hospital was primarily intended to serve as an emergency facility, with most of the treatment concentrated on emergency surgery.
	www.lycos.com /info/svalbard--barents-sea.html (428 words)

	Search Results for "Svalbard"
		...Government Country name:conventional long form: none conventional short form: Svalbard (sometimes referred to as Spitzbergen)Dependency status:territory of Norway;...
		Svalbard, (sval´bard) (KEY), archipelago (23,958 sq mi/62,051 sq km), island group (1994 pop.
		...An island of Norway in Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean east of northern Greenland.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Svalbard (250 words)

	Svalbard: Longyearbyen Hospital
		In connection with the study of industrial development on Svalbard in 1989-1996, a separate analysis of the profitability of private enterprises in Longyearbyen was carried out.
		The study shows that private enterprise profitability is on a par with or slightly higher than in enterprises elsewhere in Norway within the steering parameters that apply to Svalbard (including low personal and company taxation, tax exemptions and a subsidized infrastructure).
		The administrative work connected with the management of daycare institutions in Longyearbyen is a task which it would be natural to transfer from the Governor to the Longyearbyen Community Council.
	www.lycos.com /info/svalbard--longyearbyen-hospital.html (382 words)

	Freedom in the World--The Annual Survey of Political Rights & Civil Liberties 1992-1993
		Is the government or occupying power deliberately changing the ethnic composition of a country or territory so as to destroy a culture or tip the political balance in favor of another group?
		We have a question on gross indifference and corruption, because when governments do not care about the social and economic welfare of large sectors of the population, the human rights of those people suffer.
		Svalbard, a Norwegian Arctic territory with a Russian majority, and the Aland Islands, a Finnish territory with a Swedish majority, also become new related territories.
	www.ciesin.org /docs/010-276/010-276.html (2789 words)

	Sudan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Independence was achieved in 1956 but the Arab-led Khartoum government reneged promises to southerners to create a federal which led to a mutiny by southern officers that sparked 17 years of civil from 1955 to 1972.
		Elections were held in April 1965 but Sudan had a series of that proved unable either to agree on permanent constitution or to cope with problems factionalism economic stagnation and ethnic dissidence.
		February 2004 the government declared victory over the but the rebels say they remain in of rural areas and reports indicate that fighting continues.
	www.freeglossary.com /Sudan (989 words)

	Location Explorer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Svalbard is Norwegian territory, located between northern latitudes 74 and 81, where the Arctic Ocean meets the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea.
		The administrative center is Longyearbyen, where the offices of the Svalbard Governor (sysselmannen) are located.
		Lately, the economic importance of the mining industry has decreased, and tourism is emerging as an important area of focus for the future.
	www.cruise.com /LE5/Default/LocationID_13307/index.html (113 words)

	Svalbard Archaeology
		The history of Svalbard, or Spitsbergen as it was generally known as before the ratification of the Svalbard treaty in 1925, has always been connected to the exploitation of natural resources.
		During the course of the 18th century, human activity on Svalbard was dominated by hunters from northern-western Russia, the Pomors.
		The political stakes in Svalbard coalmining was also addressed by the other actors involved in the coal rush, but with no support from their national governments.
	www.svalbardarchaeology.org /history.html (1438 words)

	Svalbard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With the 1925 Svalbard Act, Norway chose to make Svalbard a part of the Kingdom, and it remains one of five special entities whose status is recognized by international treaty in the world today.
		Svalbard is completely controlled by the Kingdom of Norway and is part of it.
		Svalbard was made a part of Norway by a Norwegian act in 1925, thus Svalbard is not a Norwegian dependency.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Svalbard (1733 words)

	Svalbard - between Norway and The North Pole. Untouched, arctic wilderness, vast mountain areas & magnificent glaciers ...
		The Svalbard Islands are located halfway between Norway and The North Pole and offers untouched arctic wilderness with vast mountain areas and magnificent glaciers.
		Longyearbyen is the seat of local government and Norway's main administrative centre on Svalbard.
		Despite of Svalbard being so close to the North Pole, the archipelago has a relatively mild climate compared to areas at the same latitude.
	www.visitnorway.com /templates/NTRDestinationArticle.aspx?id=87930 (211 words)

	Hoppa - Everything in Svalbard
		Svalbard, Cruises, Environment, Government, Tourism Her finner du kvalitetssikret informasjon om naturforhold, historie og kulturminner langs Svalbards kyster, med praktiske råd om hva man kan oppleve og hvilke hensyn som må tas.
		Norway, Svalbard, Universities The University Courses on Svalbard
		Svalbard, Adventure We can propose different activities : according to your abilities: treks, a full nature trip that does not require you to be an athlete.
	hoppa.com /polarr/svalba (481 words)

	US Government Passport:
		Government Passport provides passport expediting services to individuals, travel agents, and corporate travel departments.
		Government Passport expedites new passports, passport renewals, child passports, and lost passports in as little as 24 hours.
		Government Passport is part of Urgent Passport Services, Inc. We are based in Chicago and work through passport agencies accross the country on a daily basis.
	www.governmentpassport.com (179 words)

	1000Countries.com: Svalbard II: svalbard, SVALBARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Svalbard Science Forum (SSF) was established in 1998 as a project for information and co-ordination on science and research on Svalbard, on behalf of the Research Council...
		Svalbard Research: The Spitsbergen archipelago comprises all the islands in the Arctic Sea situated between 10 degrees and 35 degrees East of Greenwich and between 74 degrees and 81 degrees North...
		Svalbard is the geographical name of the high Arctic archipelago situated between 74Â° and 81...
	www.1000countries.com /countries_of_the_world/svalbard_2.html (2210 words)

	Politics of Svalbard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Svalbard began as a territory free of a nation, with multiple people from different countries participating in industries including fishing, whaling, mining, tourism, and research.
		Having no nation left Svalbard free of any regulations or laws, though conflicts were avoided as the area was largely restricted to only whaling and research.
		The act also specifies the organization of the Svalbard administration as well as ownership over land on the archipelago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Government_of_Svalbard (883 words)

	Svalbard — an important arena - regjeringen.no
		It is frequently claimed in the public debate that Norway’s role in Svalbard is only to manage the archipelago in the best interests of the world community, or of the parties to the Svalbard Treaty.
		In accordance with the Svalbard Treaty, Norway is obliged to grant the parties to the treaty equal access to take part in the activities specified in the treaty.
		The Government wants Svalbard to be one of the world’s best preserved wilderness areas, and around 70 per cent of the archipelago is protected.
	www.regjeringen.no /en/dep/ud/About-the-Ministry/Minister-of-Foreign-Affairs-Jonas-Gahr-S/Speeches-and-articles/2006/Svalbard--an-important-arena.html?id=420843 (841 words)

	Unexplained Mysteries :: 'Doomsday' vault design unveiled
		The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be built into a mountainside on a remote island near the North Pole.
		The Norwegian government is paying the $5m (£2.5m) construction costs of the vault, which will have enough space to house three million seed samples.
		Dr Fowler said Svalbard, 1,000km (621 miles) north of mainland Norway, was chosen as the location for the vault because it was very remote and it also offered the level of stability required for the long-term project.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /viewnews.php?id=87946 (334 words)

	Polar bears roam Arctic ice on borrowed time
		There are today nearly as many polar bears as people in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, a mere 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from the North Pole, but experts fear that balance is about to shift as the white king of the ice roams steadily towards extinction.
		The substances tend to evaporate and to settle in the Arctic," said Bjarne Otnes, a local Svalbard government representative in charge of environmental issues.
		The local Svalbard government has so far ignored calls to save the small family, instead deciding to let nature take its course.
	www.terradaily.com /2004/040728025901.hzoy48ym.html (853 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has become a haven for immigrants, because an unusual treaty says they do not need a visa or permit to work and live there.
		Svalbard had been populated by hunters, whalers and miners from Scandinavia, North America, Europe and Russia.
		But there are two hitches to Svalbard life - the weather, temperatures in winter can fall to -40C, and limited social services.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/A958838D-68A1-4B23-8F0E-062EBAE88544.htm (556 words)

	UFO News Blog - Current Sightings - Latest News
		The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (also called Norwegian Seed Bank or globalt sikkerhetshvelv for frø på Svalbard) is a "doomsday" seedbank under construction on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote arctic Svalbard archipelago.
		The Svalbard International Seed Vault's mission is to store as many seeds known to humans as possible, under the terms of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
		The goal is to prevent important agricultural and wild plants from becoming rare or extinct in the event of a global disaster such as global warming, a meteor strike, nuclear or biological warfare, or gene pollution from genetically engineered plants.
	www.cosmicparadigm.com /ufonews/2006/08/svalbard-global-seed-vault.html (469 words)

	Svalbard
		Norway's sovereignty was recognized by the Svalbard Treaty of 1920 with an addition that limited military use of Svalbard and that the other nations retained the rights to their settlements; five years later Norway officially took over the territory.
		From the late 1940s to the early 1980s the geology of the Svalbard archipelago was investigated by teams from Cambridge University and other universities (e.g., Oxford University), led by Cambridge geologist W. Brian Harland.
		The Svalbard in the books is ruled by a race of sentient armored polar bears.
	www.my-world-guide.com /country/221 (857 words)

	Map Of Svalbard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	www.appliedlanguage.com /maps_of_the_world/map_of_svalbard.shtml (224 words)

	V2#1front.html
		Svalbard (the cold coast), or Spitzbergen as it is often wrongly termed, is a group of islands that lie at seventy-eight degrees North of the coast of Norway.
		Svalbard was never settled by the Inuit, and human habitation is a very recent phenomena.
		Svalbard is sadly, very much endangered by this kind of tourism, as well as by the irresponsible exploitation of the buried coal.
	homepage.mac.com /puggiq/V3N3/V3N3Svalbard.html (1062 words)

	Ministry of Agriculture and Food - regjeringen.no
		Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Today was the occation for the first tunnelling blast for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
		Svalbard Global Seed Vault: A new internet service for Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been launched on regjeringen.no. The website provides easy access to news about the project, links to partners and resources and factual information about the establishment of the seed vault and the work of securing the diversity of the world’s food plants.
		The Norwegian Government is currently working on plans to establish a global safety depository in Svalbard.
	www.regjeringen.no /en/dep/lmd.html?id=627 (341 words)

	Economy of Svalbard
		Coal mining is the major economic activity on Svalbard.
		Although US, United Kingdom, Dutch, and Swedish coal companies have mined in the past, the only companies still mining are Norwegian and Russian.
		The settlements on Svalbard are essentially company towns.
	infotut.com /geography/Svalbard/Economy (125 words)

	Norway Government Information
		From 1981 to 1997, governments alternated between Labor minority governments and Conservative-led coalition governments.
		The first government coalition led by Christian Democrat Kjell Magne Bondevik came to power in 1997, but fell in March 2000 over the issue of proposed gas-fired power plants, opposed by Bondevik due to their impact on climate change.
		The current government is the first majority government in Norway in over 20 years, but the governing coalition has had to bridge substantial policy differences to build this majority.
	www.traveldocs.com /no/govern.htm (477 words)

	Svalbard Tourist Traps - Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		Adding to the confusion is the info the operators put on their web pages, inkling toward general tourism info as well, and having quite similar-sounding names for their companies.
		The company Svalbard Villmarkssenter may be more costly, but they seem to serve a better deal than the average upstart travel and tour operators in Longyearbyen.
		This is apparently THE thing to do in Svalbard, whether on a cruise or in a fancy restaurant: the ice in your whisky glass is glacier ice fished up from the fjord or chopped off some glacier and you are told how many thousands of years it is and the refill is instant.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Svalbard/Tourist_Traps-Svalbard-BR-1.html (1200 words)

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