Spitsbergen - Imperialists beyond the British Empire

• Main Author: Kruse, Frigga
• Other Authors: Hacquebord, Louwrens
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Barkhuis Publishing 2012
• Subjects: history; natural resources; polar regions; Arctic; Spitsbergen; Conway
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11370/91da524d-e5fd-4227-a40e-afa9ca3bcf64; https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/spitsbergen--imperialists-beyond-the-british-empire(91da524d-e5fd-4227-a40e-afa9ca3bcf64).html

This paper looks at the relationship between Spitsbergen in the European High Arctic and the global British Empire in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Spitsbergen was an uninhabited no man's land and comprised an unknown quantity of natural resources. The concepts of geopolitics and...