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ID: 7005005
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005005
Record Type:
administrative
Svalbard (dependent state)
Coordinates:
Lat: 78 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 78.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 020 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 20.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in the Arctic Ocean; charted by Dutchman Willem Barents in 1596; formerly was a major whaling center.
Names:
Svalbard
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Spitsbergenøgruppen
(
C
,
V
)
Svalbard Archipelago
(
C
,
V
)
SV00
(
C
,
O
,
FIPS
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Svalbard
(dependent state) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Svalbard and Jan Mayen
(general region) (
P
)
............
Svalbard
(dependent state)
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Norway
(nation) (
P
)
............
Svalbard
(dependent state)
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Northern Europe
(general region) (
P
)
............
Svalbard
(dependent state) (
P
)
Place Types:
dependent state (
preferred
,
C
)
............
officially incorporated in Norway on August 14, 1925
primary political unit (
C
)
island group (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital is ....
Longyearbyen
.......... (inhabited place)
..................
(World, Europe, Svalbard, Spitsbergen) [7005017]
Sources and Contributors:
Spitsbergenøgruppen..........
[
VP
]
...................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 23 April 2015
SV00..........
[
VP
]
...........
NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999)
82
Svalbard..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
493
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
622
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 23 April 2015
Svalbard Archipelago..........
[
VP
]
...................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 23 April 2015
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
493
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
622
..................
NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999)
82
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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