Svalbard coastline , Svalbard Natural Resources

Svalbard

Location : northern europe. islands between the arctic ocean. barents sea. greenland sea. and norwegian sea. north of norway

Geographic Coordinates : 78 00 n. 20 00 e

Map Reference : arctic region

Area : total: 62.049 sq km land: 62.049 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes spitsbergen and bjornoya (bear island)

Area Comparative: slightly smaller than west virginia

Svalbard More Facts

Land boundaries : 0 km

coastline : 230

Maritime Claims : territorial sea: 4 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm unilaterally claimed by norway but not recognized by russia
Climate: arctic. tempered by warm north atlantic current; cool summers. cold winters; north atlantic current flows along west and north coasts of spitsbergen. keeping water open and navigable most of the year

Terrain : wild. rugged mountains; much of high land ice covered; west coast clear of ice about one-half of the year; fjords along west and north coasts

Elevation extremes : lowest point: arctic ocean 0 m highest point: newtontoppen 1.717 m

Natural Resources :coal. iron ore. copper. zinc. phosphate. wildlife. fish

Land use : arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (no trees. and the only bushes are crowberry and cloudberry) (2001)

Irrigated Lands : na sq km