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52 photos and 2 illustrations tagged svalbard, from 6 members of Flickr Commons.

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• Preus museum 22 photos & illustrations
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• The Library of Congress 11 photos & illustrations
• British Library 2 photos & illustrations
• Fotoarkivet NTM 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration

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[Advent Bay, Spitzbergen, Norway] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Nina Kuriloff said:

  The mountains have beautiful shapes.

• Peter Skov said:

  This is a really interesting collectio of historical imags. The colour treatment gives them an interesting aesthitic quality.

• Wwkwanddsmd@aol.com said:

  Like an oil painting.

• jan.of.norway said:

  100 years later
  
  Tourists still visit Spitsbergen.
  
  A little further west along the Adventfjord, but partly the same mountain-view
  as seen in the postcard of the tourist's house here above.

[The Danskerne, Spitzbergen, Norway] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Ἐπίκουρος said:

  Title says: Fra Danskøerne - From the danish islands.

• lidia said:

  Bellissimo paesaggio!!!

Spitzberg - balloon stored, tethered in shed

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 17 older comments, and then…
• beachcomber australia said:

  It looks astronomical more than igloo-ish ...

• Ilia Alshanetsky said:

  wonderful

• Sharon Corbet said:

  I don't want to imply that you are a monkey's uncle... but this picture from the wikipedia article on S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897 does seem to imply that it is a balloon tethered in a shed on Spitsbergen, Svalbard (Norway.)

• Sharon Corbet said:

  Inside the shed Departure of the balloon

• Sharon Corbet said:

  beachcomber australia Snap, yet again!