THE RUSSIAN SETTLEMENT AT RUSSEKEILA AND LAND RISE IN VESTSPITSBERGEN”
T HE archeological-ethnographical expeditions to Vestspitsbergen in the summers of 1955 and 1960 were undertaken in order to investigate the possibility of settlements having existed in Spitsbergen before 1596, when the islands were “officially ” discovered by the Dutch explorer Barents, and to sear...
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| Summary: | T HE archeological-ethnographical expeditions to Vestspitsbergen in the summers of 1955 and 1960 were undertaken in order to investigate the possibility of settlements having existed in Spitsbergen before 1596, when the islands were “officially ” discovered by the Dutch explorer Barents, and to search for traces of the many whaling and hunting stations that existed |
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