Spitsbergen
Americannoun
noun
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The fossil evidence from Spitsbergen now challenges that assumption.
From Science Daily • Dec. 30, 2025
"This picture was taken in Spitsbergen during a very cold winter. The white grouse is coming towards me and looks like a snowball with eyes."
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2023
"Only now we will have to start looking in even older rocks, which is exactly what we will be doing on our next fossil-hunting trip to Spitsbergen this summer."
From Reuters • Mar. 14, 2023
Our closest encounter was in Spitsbergen, Norway and we had been told that there would be a polar bear behind every rock.
From Slate • Apr. 11, 2021
The Arctic fauna and flora in Scandinavia—that is to say, the descendants of those species which migrated direct from Greenland and Spitsbergen, as we have seen, are numerous.
From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis
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