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Definition of Spitsbergen
1. Noun. Islands in the Svalbard archipelago to the east of northern Greenland; belonging to Norway.
Definition of Spitsbergen
1. Proper noun. The largest island of Svalbard. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spitsbergen
Literary usage of Spitsbergen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1905)
"GEORGE EARL CHURCH. POLAR REGIONS. EARLY HISTORY OF spitsbergen. ' Early Voyages
to spitsbergen in tho Seventeenth Century. ..."
2. Remarkable Shipwrecks; Or, A Collection of Interesting Accounts of Naval by Andrus and Starr (1813)
"For eight successive days after they had sailed, the wind was fair; but on the
ninth it changed, so that instead of getting to the west of spitsbergen, ..."
3. Mountain Craft by Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1920)
"CHAPTER XII MOUNTAINEERING IN THE ARCTIC (spitsbergen) BY SIR W. MARTIN ...
SINCE the expedition which I took to spitsbergen in the years 1896 and 1897, ..."
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