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
While today there are polar bears and beluga whales at Spitsbergen, 250 million years ago the sea there would have been teeming with fish, sharks, shelled squid-like ammonoids and crocodile-like marine amphibians called temnospondyls.
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 exclusive right to fish for whales in the waters of Spitsbergen and Greenland was claimed by the English on the ground of Hugh Willoughby's alleged discovery of Spitsbergen in 1553.
From History of Holland by George Edmundson
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