Images (p. 427)

Image by Yakov Leuzinger

Pomor Seafarers

The Pomors – the indigenous population of Pomomerie (the Arkhangelskaya Oblast region in northeastern Russia that mainly lies south of the White Sea) - were skilled sailors. Pomor hunters and trappers were in Svalbard in the 17th and 18th...

Image by National Maritime Museum, London

Death of William Barents

Painting depicting the death of William Barents (Willem Barentsz) (1550-1597). Oil on canvas, 1836, by Christiaan Julius Lodewijk Portman (1799–1868).

Image by National Archives of Norway

Kings Bay Kull Compagni's Mining Operations on Svalbard - 1918

From Kings Bay Kull Compagni's mining operations on Svalbard. Photo: Sigvald Moa. From the archive of Kings Bay Kull Compagni AS (PA-1632, series D, pcs. 1, 2_8).

Image by Purchased by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam with support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

A Whale Oil Refinery at Smeerenburg, Svalbard

The whale oil refinery of the Amsterdam chamber of the Greenland Company on Amsterdam Island off the coast of Spitsbergen. Oil on canvas, 1639.

Image by Bjoertvedt

Pyramiden

The abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement of Pyramiden on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

Image by Michigan Art Company

John Munro Longyear

John Munro Longyear (1850-1922), who was the central figure behind the Arctic Coal Company which surveyed and mined coalfields on Spitsbergen, now Svalbard, from 1905 to 1916. Longyearbyen - the world's northernmost settlement and largest...

Image by Oona Räisänen

Topographic map of Svalbard

Topographic map of Svalbard archipelago (formerly known as Spitsbergen).

Image by Willem Barentsz.

1598 Map of the Three Arctic Voyages (1594–1596) by Willem Barentsz

1598 Map of the Three Arctic Voyages (1594–1596) by Willem Barentsz. Spitsbergen (now Svalbard) is mapped for the first time and indicated as "Het Nieuwe Land" (Dutch for "the New Land"), centre-left.