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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
the Second Week after Epiphany
the Second Week after Epiphany
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Spitzbergen
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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The name of an Arctic archipelago lying 400 m. N. of Norway, embracing West Spitzbergen (15,260 sq. m.), North-East Land, Stans Foreland, King Charles land or Wiche Island, Barents Land, Prince Charles Foreland, besides numerous smaller islands; practically lies under great fields of ice, enormous glaciers, and drifts of snow, pierced here and there by mountain peaks, hence the name Spitzbergen; the home of vast flocks of sea-birds, of polar bears, and Arctic foxes, while herds of reindeer are attracted to certain parts by a scanty summer vegetation; there are no permanent inhabitants, but the fiord-cut shores are frequented in summer by Norwegian seal and walrus hunters.
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Bibliography Information
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Spitzbergen'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/spitzbergen.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Spitzbergen'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/spitzbergen.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
