Sixty percent of Svalbard's land is protected. The seven national parks are: Forlandet, Indre Wijdefjorden, Nordenskiöld Land, Nordre Isfjorden, Nordvest-Spitsbergen, Sassen-Bünsow Land, and Sør-Spitsbergen. Roug, Louise (12 October 2007). "The Seed Bank Atop the World". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012 . Retrieved 15 March 2012.

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Where the extraordinary is ordinary

Spitsbergen Airship Museum". Spitsbergen Airship Museum. Archived from the original on 29 February 2012 . Retrieved 19 March 2012. Svalbardi literally means “the land with the cold shores”. Svalbarði fundinn was mentioned in traditional Icelandic accounts dated to 1194. However, we will never know for sure whether this mention refers to the discovery of Svalbard or another land area with cold shores. In 1947, Adélard Godbout proposed a flag, diagonally divided with one white triangle in the bottom-left and one red triangle in the top-right, and a green maple leaf in the center. In 1896, Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab started tours to Hotellneset. To accommodate tourists, they built a prefabricated hotel, but it was not profitable and was closed after the 1897 season. However, two families overwintered in 1898–99. [4] :55 and Norway Post operated a post office at Hotellneset from 1897 to 1899. [4] :104 The first commercially viable coal on Svalbard was harvested by Søren Zakariassen in 1899. [4] :45 In 1901, Bergen-Spitsbergen Kullgrube-kompani started mining coal in Adventtoppen. [4] :46

Longyearbyen map" (PDF). Svalbard Reiseliv. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 March 2012 . Retrieved 19 March 2012. Alcohol and tobacco". Governor. Archived from the original on 23 February 2018 . Retrieved 23 February 2018. Takle, Mona Takle; Vassenden, Kåre (March 2008). "Country classifications in migration statistics – present situation and proposals for a Eurostat standard" (PDF). United Nations Statistical Commission and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 April 2003 . Retrieved 4 March 2012. In 1992, one of the proposals was a horizontal tricolor of green-red-blue tricolor with green representing Muslims, red representing Croats, and blue representing Serbs.Svalbard, an archipelago located in the Arctic Ocean, is a territory of Norway. However, it does not have its own official flag distinct from the flag of Norway. Instead, the flag of Norway, also known as the Norwegian flag or the " Nordic Cross" is used to represent Svalbard. As of 2014, Thai people, numbering 120, were the second largest group of residents after Norwegians; [30] there were 60 in 2006. Thais first came to Svalbard when men brought their wives from Thailand during the 1970s. [31] In 2006, most of the Thai residents worked as cleaners, [31] and as of 2011 most stay for terms of two to three years to save funds. [ citation needed] In 2007, 10 students at the Longyearbyen School were Thai. [32] The Thai community is active in numerous cultural events annually and motivated the establishment of a Thai supermarket. [30] Most residents of Longyearbyen agree that each season has its own charm. Some prefer the Northern Lights winter, while others appreciate the brighter sunny season when the Midnight Sun is high in the polar sky.

After the flag debate and the current Flag of Canada got accepted, another proposal came to represent French ties in Canada, that being the Canadian Unity Flag, which adds 2 small blue bars to the edges of the white center bar to represent French Canadians. [19] While a separate ISO code for Svalbard was proposed by the United Nations, it was the Norwegian authorities who took initiative to include Jan Mayen in the code. Its official language is Norwegian. Longyearbyen is in the lower portion of the Longyear Valley, along the Longyear River. The lower parts of the town lie along the southwestern shore of the bay of Adventfjorden, a 4 + 1⁄ 2 by 2 + 1⁄ 2mi) branch of Isfjorden. [13] Longyearbyen is on the Nordenskiöld Land peninsula of Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago. [5] Across the bay lie the ghost towns of Advent City [14] and Hiorthhamn. [13] It is the world's second northernmost town, with all settlements further north (excluding Ny-Ålesund) being research or meteorological outposts. [15] The northernmost permanent settlement in the world is Alert, Canada, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, while the true northernmost settlement in the world is Camp Barneo in April. [16]An ethnicity is a group or sub-group of people who are connected based on common characteristics which may include religion, origin, language, traditions, or culture. The ethnic group in Svalbard is Norwegian.