Just opposite the main town of Longyearbyen lies the Austre Adventfjord. This area had been bought by the Norwegian state in 2017 so that the owner would not sell it to foreign nations. But the state failed to secure resource extraction rights as well. Picture:...
The company Store Norske’s mine 7 is the only Norwegian coal mine still active on Svalbard. Every year it delivers around 30,000 tonnes of coal to Longyearbyen and another 80,000 to Europe. Photo: Michael Wenger Longyearbyen, the capital of Svalbard, has grown...
