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

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

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...

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

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.

A Depiction of Willem Barentsz's three expeditions in search of the coveted Northeast Passage to Cathay (China) and the Spice Islands. Woodcut. 1598.

A sculpture portraying a Silenus bearing the child Dionysos. Unknown Artist. Located at Glyptothek, Munich

Orpheus in Hades, 1897, by Pierre Marcel-Beronneau. Oil on Canvas. Located at Collection du Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille

Sculpture depicting either Hippolyta, Antiope or Armed Venus preparing for battle. Work by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert, 1860. Located at National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Roman marble relief showing a small two-masted coastal sailing vessel called corbita, as well as its sailour. Found at Carthage and possibly made in Africa Proconsularis (modern-day Tunisia) circa 200 CE. Corbita boats had two sails...