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| | Hot Air Balloon Flights Rides near Philadelphia PA. Chester County, south eastern Pennsylvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19) |
 | | The major islands are those of the Canadian Archipelago (including Baffin, Banks, Ellesmere, Victoria, Sverdrup, Parry, Prince of Wales, and Axel Hieberg); the Norwegian island group of Svalbard (including Spitsbergen); and Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya, and the New Siberian Islands, all of which are part of Russia. |
 | | By contrast, many of the Arctic islands are relatively rugged, and low mountains rise precipitously from the sea. |
 | | The first reported sighting of Greenland was by Gunnbjorn UIfsson, but the credit for actual exploration of the island goes to ERIC THE RED, who visited the western coast about 982 and, in about 986, set up a colony in the southwestern part of the island that survived for several centuries. |
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