Season 1 · Episode 3
Svalbard: its geographical and strategic importance
Geography Matters · Chris Hamnett
November 13, 202422m 15s
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Show Notes
Svalbard, or Spitzbergen, as it used to be called, is an archipelago in the Arctic ocean about midway between the north of Norway and the North Pole and midway between Greenland to the West and the islands of Novaya Zemblya in northern Russia. 60% of it is covered with glaciers and it has about 3000 people. Its a place most people have never heard of, but it has considerable geographical and strategic significance as this episode of Geography Matters makes clear