Yes, and there isn't that many videos of Svalbard. (and as a sidenote. I will be at Svea mining town this june/juli to work with cleaning up the place after a hundred years of mining operation.)
Bjørnøya has a station of the Norwegian Metereological Institute. A few years ago the norwegian broadcaster NRK had a reality series following the meteorologists stationed there. They are not permanently stationed there but go for a season and then switch back to mainland duties.
I have no idea how this and your other video about the treaty got on my " recommended " list, but glad they did. My oldest sister first visited Norway as an exchange student 55 years ago and as a kid in middle school I tried to imagine...and failed to comprehend what a culture shock it might have been for a teenager to be dropped into a country where you did not know the language. She has subsequently gone back for several visits, and even spent a year there as an elementary school teacher. I believe she may have even gone back for her 50th high school reunion. She speaks quite warmly of her time spent there. Me? My interest in Norway started out as being a dietary one. She would make many Norwegian Christmas treats for the rest of the family. But the last time I was to her home for a visit I found a very interesting book: Fire and Ice. Having spent a year in Iceland while in the U.S. Navy, and since Iceland is called The Land of Fire and Ice....well, I expected a sort of travelogue type book. It was about the Second World War and Germany's retreat from northern Norway, very fascinating. That is how I managed to stumble onto my first reference to this area. I think I am hooked and have been hinting, very subtly hinting, that if my sister ever returns to " her second home and family " that I really want to go, too.
Howard Kerr Interesting read! And I need to check out that book. I haven’t been to Norway yet but I hope I’ll make it there someday. I can tell you though that Denmark and Sweden are both beautiful. Norway though is supposed to be a whole experience on its own though.
Very interesting. Thanks for the information. A place I defnitely want to visit ! A hard place to get a job. It is mostly tourism and science from the UNIS university ! As a Dutchman I was always curious as to some of the Dutch names around Svalbard e.g. Spitsbergen also the Jan Mayen Island.
Geopoliticus You’re right! I didn’t even think about that. Although here there was not a real “winner” of a colonial territory like there was in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
And North America (New Amsterdam/New York), Central America (Belize), the Caribbean and South America (Suriname). In fact, the British and Dutch traded New Amsterdam (went to the English) for Willoughbyland (went to the Dutch) with the Treaty of Westminster in 1674. That paved the way for British colonies in North America and a century later, the United States, with New York as its capital.
@@Geopoliticus Oh yes. They were a major financial and political force in those times. They were also leaders in technology and the arts. It was a real empire.
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You refered alot to the english in your video but you continuously used the british flag?. Are you familiar with the geography of Britain being a geographical and historical channel?
Amazing video! I remember seeing svalbard on a globe a few years back and was always wondering whether it was discovered via satellite or by an expedition.
This was a great video. Very well done and informative, and the first I have seen about Svalbard that wasn't just a youtuber showing the bears or grocery prices... haha. Thank you for putting this together!
Your voice is so soothing and pleasant to listen to (you sound a bit like the Outsider from Dishonored 1 hahah) And the video itself was very well done; accurate, concise, no bullshit. Can't wait to check out the rest of your videos!
The funny and weird part with Svalbard, is that you can walk into the hotel (at the end) with your rifle on your shoulder and nobody really cares. This is probably the one most peaceful place I have ever visited. A magnificent place I have been to twice and still long to get back there.
I am currently following a you tube channel of a resident of this island - this was very informative. Thanks for posting. What passports do most residents there possess? Norwegian?
I recently learned that there is a Spaceport on the Svalbard from where rockets are launched to space. It is used by several different countries. Previously, I never knew that Norway has a Space Agency and they are a member of ESA. Also, there is a large satellite station on one the islands.
In September 1943 the Germans bombed the cities of Longyearbyen and Barentsburg and leveled each of them save for a few buildings. This operation was carried out by the Battleship Tirpitz and the Battlecruiser Scharnhorst
The Arctic Cool Company, established in the cool period after the busy whaling period. The company proved that mining was cool and became very profitable. The Germans destroyed the cool mines in WWII not willing to relinquish the cool resources to the allies.
As this video is all about history, I offer these notes: At around 4:57, 'The king of Great Britain himself, King James the first, claimed sovereignty...' This person was James VI of Scots (1567-1625), and at the death of Elizabeth of England in 1603, he inherited the kingdom of England (James 1 of England). The Kingdom of Great Britain did not not exist until 1707, although James did claim to be 'king of Great Britain'. This is true as Great Britain is the name of the largest island in the British Isles, but the name of the island should not be confused with the name of the nation.
Considering people are required to carry a rifle for bear defense, I wonder A} How many polar bear attacks occur a year, and B] How many polar bears are killed each year. Thanks if anyone can answer these questions.
@@arshadsharma1277 just call companies and ask for job and send cv. Appartment is about 1000dollar a month and food is about 800dollar per month. You need warm clothes🙂
@@BradleyGearhart not simple mistake if you're English at the moment patriotism is rife in my area and I cannot think why? thankyou for your response and keep up the good work!
@@kevins9417 Except the nation and the crown aren’t just England. The ships don’t sail under the St George flag either. England is a country within Great Britain, a nation.
They are storing seeds in very cold rooms so when a entire crop is wiped out it can be brought back, it has been used already when some countries have been wiped by war.
If the russian empire conquered it they can easily install nuclear weapons in there pointing to whole cotinental europe.. good thing norway is kind and no one can militarize that.. while everyone are free to explore and have a fair share.
To be fair, it would be difficult to launch anything with Svalbard’s climate and weather and Russia could easily take it from Norway if they wanted to. It just isn’t going to happen in the modern world.
The modern weapons can travel in under a minute and do not need to be that close anymore. It is not the 1970's massive ballistic weapons anymore they have hypersonic low level weapons.
Agree to let Norway control it but provide for any signing country to use resources, or a country could be completely cut out of it since they had lost the war many of them.
Perhaps you have crossed into a new parallel universe? Your old universe really didn't have this island but your new one does!!? Mandela effect OOOHHH ssshhhiitt!!!!???
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YtStgMsmko4.htmlsi=o-7UTwRfRzi-420L. Wikipedia states this is a true story. You showed an old map showing an island at the North Pole. Could this be the Garden of Eden & if so how can we get there?
The Icelanders are more Irish than Viking---their blood groups are almost identical with Ireland. Ireland and Iceland are blood group O. Norway , on the other hand, is blood group A.
Acabo de ver historias acerca de que mas tourists han visitado ese pueblo, lo que ocaciona encuentros con osos polares y como consecuencia la gente los tiene que matar para su defense, lo cual me parece triste, porque nosotros entramos al habitat de ellos, los que deberiamos de ser prohibidos a entrar deberiamos de ser los series humanos,.
Its funny we watch news & think humans have recently gone crazy over territorial disputes, but history of mankind is all abt fighting with each other over something they didn't create and does not belong to them. We forget that we're all temporary residents here & this universe belongs to the Almighty.
